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Table 2 Predicted sampling efficiency of the novel traps (per night) relative to the HLC gold standard

From: Development and evaluation of mosquito-electrocuting traps as alternatives to the human landing catch technique for sampling host-seeking malaria vectors

Species

Location

Trap

Relative sampling efficiency (95 % CI)

p value

An. gambiae s.l.

Indoors

MET

20.9 (10.3–42.2)

<0.001

CA-EG

6.1 (2.8–13.1)

<0.001

Outdoors

MET

58.5 (32.2–106.2)*

0.55

CA-EG

9.9 (5.3–18.4)

0.023

An. funestus s.l.

Indoors

MET

74.2 (37.0–148.9)*

0.12

CA-EG

28.7 (13.9–59.6)

<0.001

Outdoors

MET

93.5 (43.9–199.3)*

0.86

CA-EG

9.6 (4.0–22.7)

0.90

  1. Asterisks are placed in cases where the upper limit of the 95 % confidence interval includes 100 %, indicating no significant difference between the performance of a novel trap compared to the HLC