An improved mosquito electrocuting trap that safely reproduces epidemiologically relevant metrics of mosquito human-feeding behaviours as determined by human landing catch

Table 2 Comparisons of numbers of female Anopheles gambiae complex and Culex sp. caught between indoors and outdoors by alternative mosquito electrocuting grid (MET) relative to reference human landing catch (HLC), pooling data from each sites and analysed by generalized linear mixed effect model (GLMM)

Collection methods	Trap nights	Total catch	Mean catch	RR [95 % CI]	P
Anopheles gambiae s.l.
Indoors
HLC	308	226	0.73	1^a	NA
MET	308	348	1.13	1.47 [1.23–1.76]	<0.0001
Outdoors
HLC	308	237	0.77	1^a
MET	308	373	1.12	1.38 [1.14–1.67]	<0.0001
Indoors and outdoors combined
HLC	616	463	0.75	1^a
MET	616	721	1.17	1.42 [1.24–3.48]	<0.0001
Culex spp.
Indoors
HLC	308	13,613	44.19	1^a
MET	308	12,576	40.83	0.93 [0.90–0.95]	<0.0001
Outdoors
HLC	308	17,273	56.08	1^a	NA
MET	308	16,352	53.09	0.95 [0.93–0.97]	<0.0001
Indoors and outdoors combined
HLC	616	30,886	50.14	1^a
MET	616	28,928	46.96	0.94 [0.92–0.95]	<0.0001

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