Plasmodium falciparum in the southeastern Atlantic forest: a challenge to the bromeliad-malaria paradigm?

Malaria Journal

Table 3 Analysis of the binomial probability distribution of anopheline- P . falciparum infection according to landscape or species or traps, Atlantic forest, Brazil, August-November 2012

Landscape	Positive (k)	Tested (n)	Probability (P) ^a	1 – P (k = 0)
1-A	2	93	0.138	0.985
1-B	0	31	0.248	0.752^c
1-C	0	1	0.956	0.044^c
2	0	14	0.533	0.467^c
3	1	111	0.035^b	0.993
4	0	23	0.355	0.645^c
5	18	207	0.003^b	0.997
Species	Positive (k)	Tested (n)	Probability (P) ^a	1 – P (k = 0)
An. albitarsis	0	28	0.284	0.716^c
An. bellator	0	9	0.667	0.333^c
An. cruzii	18	260	0.018^b	0.999
An. fluminensis	0	3	0.874	0.126^c
An. galvaoi	1	48	0.255	0.885
An. mediopunctatus	0	42	0.151	0.849
An. strodei	1	73	0.126	0.963
An. triannulatus	1	17	0.364	0.535^c
Traps	Positive (k)	Tested (n)	Probability (P) ^a	1 – P (k = 0)
CDC-LT	0	38	0.181	0.819
Shannon	21	442	0.083^b	1

^aAn a priori probability of success (k/n) in each trial equals to 0.044, which was the overall prevalence of anopheline-P. falciparum infection obtained herein (21 /480), was assumed.
^bThis result was statistically significant (level of significance < 0.05).
^cThis result shows that the statistical power was low (<0.80).

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