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Table 1 Knockdown (1 h) and mortality (24 h post exposure) of Anopheles gambiae s.l. mosquitoes exposed to insecticide-treated eave tube inserts for 3 min before or after (3–5 weeks) the screen-house experiments (4 replicates per treatment)

From: Eave tubes for malaria control in Africa: prototyping and evaluation against Anopheles gambiae s.s. and Anopheles arabiensis under semi-field conditions in western Kenya

 

Before screen-house tests

After screen-house tests

Species

Eave tube insert treatment

Knockdown average % [±95% CI]

Mortality average % [±95% CI]

Knockdown average % [±95% CI]

Mortality average % [±95% CI]

An. gambiae

Fluorescent dust

6.5 [2.4–10.6]

17.8 [7.3–28.4 ± 5.4]

0

4.1 [0.9 to 7.2]

Deltamethrin (0.25%)

100

100

100

100

Bendiocarb (1.25%)

100

100

98.9 [96.9–101.1]

98.9 [96.9 to 101.1]

An. arabiensis

Fluorescent dust

0

1.0 [−0.1 to 2.2]

0

1.8 [−1.7 to 5.3]

Deltamethrin (0.25%)

100

100

98.5 [96.9–100.4]

96.6 [93.2 to 99.9]

Bendiocarb (1.25%)

100

100

33.4 [9.7–57.2]

38.8 [11.2 to 66.3]