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Table 3 Statistical significance of the impact of household livestock ownership on the abundance of indoor host seeking mosquitoes and malaria vector species composition across the three years of the study

From: The impact of livestock on the abundance, resting behaviour and sporozoite rate of malaria vectors in southern Tanzania

Trait

Species

2007

2008

2009

  

Dev

P

Dev

P

Dev

P

Mean abundance

       

CDC light trap indoor

An. gambiae s.l

2.16

0.14

1.30

0.26

2.49

0.11

 

An. funestus s.l.

4.67

0.03

1.41

0.26

1.37

0.24

Species Composition

CDC light trap

8.33

<0.01

55.25

<0.001

0.15

0.70

 

Outdoor resting

1.18

0.28

4.30

0.04

8.54

<0.01

 

Indoor resting

1.12

0.29

0.65

0.42

3.39

0.07

  1. The abundance of host seeking mosquitoes (per night) was measured by CDC light traps placed indoors. Species composition refers to the proportion of An. arabiensis within the An. gambiae s.l. species complex. “Dev” = Deviance, and P values are for the significance of the statistical comparison between households with and without livestock.
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Malaria Journal

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