Malaria vectors and their blood-meal sources in an area of high bed net ownership in the western Kenya highlands

Table 1 Mean density of people, bed nets and domesticated animals per house within the three study sites

	Ebulako	Muluhoro	Inavi	Total
Houses per site	70	60	63	193
Houses sampled 1	53 (75.7)	49 (81.7)	51 (81.0)	153 (79.3)
Persons	3.68 (3.18–4.18)^a	4.16 (3.53–4.80)^a	3.31 (2.86–3.77)^a	3.71 (3.41–4.02)
Bed nets	2.13 (1.80–2.46)^a	1.67 (1.27–2.08)^a,b	1.43 (1.14–1.72)^b	1.75 (1.55–1.95)
Houses sampled 2	23 (32.9)	70 (116.7)	59 (93.7)	152 (78.8)
Cats	0.22 (0.04–0.40)^a	0.16 (0.07–0.24)^a	0.14 (0.05–0.23)^a	0.16 (0.10–0.22)
Chickens	2.09 (0.55–3.62)^a	2.81 (1.59–4.04)^a	4.81 (2.80–6.82)^a	3.48 (2.49–4.47)
Cows	1.09 (0.31–1.87)^a	0.73 (0.44–1.02)^a	1.37 (0.88–1.87)^a	1.03 (0.77–1.29)
Dogs	0.17 (−0.19–0.53)^a	0.04 (−0.02–0.11)^a	0.19 (0.02–0.35)^a	0.12 (0.03–0.20)
Goats	0.43 (−0.13–1.00)^a	0.23 (0.05–0.41)^a	0.32 (0.09–0.56)^a	0.30 (0.15–0.44)
Sheep	0	0.13 (−0.01–0.27)^a	0.05 (−0.05–0.15)^a	0.08 (0.00–0.15)

Numbers in parentheses are percentages for houses sampled and are 95 % CI for the others
Letters following numbers indicate the results of Tukey–Kramer HSD tests. Values with the same letter in a row were not statistically significant at P < 0.05