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Table 2 Mean nightly man biting rate, with 95% confidence intervals, from human landing collections and pyrethrum knockdown collections for urban communities with and without agriculture.

From: Impact of urban agriculture on malaria vectors in Accra, Ghana

 

Human landing catch

Pyrethrum knockdown collection

 

A. gambiae

Culex

A. gambiae

Culex

Urban Agriculture

8.1 (5.1–13.0)

161.8 (132.1–198.1)

0.43 (0.4–0.5)

1.1 (0.9–1.3)

Urban

2.8 (1.8–4.3)

41.0 (27.8–60.4)

0.37 (0.3–0.4)

0.7 (0.6–0.8)

All communities

4.7 (3.3–6.7)

81.4 (60.8–109.1)

0.40 (0.34–0.42)

0.9 (0.8–1.0)

  1. Data were analysed based upon a log10(n+1) transformation.