Insecticide-treated net wall hangings for malaria vector control: an experimental hut study in north-eastern Tanzania

Table 1 Numbers of An. gambiae entering, feeding and dying in experimental huts with insecticide treated NWH

Hut treatment	Control (untreated DL)	Deltamethrin NWH on 2 walls	P-methyl NWH on Ceiling	P-methyl NWH on 2 walls	P-methyl NWH on 4walls	P-methyl NWH on 4 walls and ceiling
Total females caught	171	86	57	60	35	14
Average catch per night	4.8^a	2.4^b	1.6^b	1.7^b	1.0^bc	0.4^c
Deterrence (%)	0	50	67	65	80	92
Total females blood fed	109	44	42	37	20	10
Blood feeding Inhibition (%)	0	20	0	5	11	0
Total dead	7	13	35	55	31	12
Corrected mortality (%)	0	11	59	92	90	86

Values along a row sharing the same letter superscript are not significantly different at the 5% level.

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