Table 2 Mortality and blood-feeding outcomes of anopheline mosquitoes collected in the ICON Maxx experimental hut trials in Muheza and Moshi, Tanzania in 2008

Number of washes

0

0

20

Cut off

20

Anopheles funestus

 Total dead

8

92

45

89

91

 % mortality corrected for control

0^a

74.6^b

57.7^bc

51.6^c

39.6^d

 % overall killing effect

0^a

37.8^bc

16.7^b

34.5^c

37.4^bc

 Total blood-fed

81

23

20

41

88

 % blood-feeding inhibition

0^a

48.3^b

27.9^b

32.7^b

0^a

 % personal protection

0^ab

71.6^c

75.3^c

49.2^ac

0^b

Anopheles gambiae

 Total dead

6

30

26

21

37

 % mortality corrected for control

0^a

71.4^b

66.3^b

32.7^c

39.8^c

 % overall killing effect

0^a

30.4^b

25.3^b

19^b

39.2^b

 Total blood fed

48

3

10

25

34

 % blood-feeding inhibition

0^a

85.2^b

46.8^a

11.3^a

19.2^a

 % personal protection

0^a

93.8^b

79.2^bc

47.9^ac

29.2^a

Anopheles arabiensis

 Total dead

15

181

233

183

160

 % mortality corrected for control

0^a

47.4^b

41.9^b

29.8^c

35.7^c

 % overall killing effect

0^a

34.4^b

45.1^b

34.8^b

30^b

 Total blood fed

131

40

44

52

54

 % blood-feeding inhibition

0^a

60^bc

69.6^b

66.5^bc

53^c

 % personal protection

0^a

69.5^b

66.4^b

60.3^b

58.8^b