Monitoring changes in malaria epidemiology and effectiveness of interventions in Ethiopia and Uganda: Beyond Garki Project baseline survey

Table 5 Human biting rate (HBR) for each species in study sites in Uganda

Site	Details	A. gambiae s.l.	A. funestus s.l.	A. coustani s.l.
Aduku	Sample size (indoors + outdoors)	19	84	37
	Total HBR per person per night^a	1.15	4.04	2.10
	% human-vector contact occurring indoors	92.7	83.0	92.1
	% feeding on humans before 2200 h (indoors + outdoors)	12.7	64.9	76.2
	% feeding outdoors if given equal opportunity (exophagy)^b	75.0	48.0	24.2
Butemba	Sample size (indoors and outdoors)	7	0	0
Butemba	Total HBR per person per night	0.52	0	0

^aHBR is expressed as the average number of bites per person per night. It was assumed that an average villager spends 1 h outdoors between 1800 and 2200 h and the remainder of the night indoors
^bOnly collections between 1800 and 0000 h were used for both indoors and outdoors for calculations of the extent of exophagic habit of the vector independent of night time habits of humans

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