Table 2 Protection conferred indoors and outdoors against anopheline and culicine species in all three rice farms when 1.5% transfluthrin-treated eave ribbons were fitted along the eaves of rice farm huts
Mosquito species | Treatment | Indoors | Outdoors | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total number | Geometric mean (LCI-UCI) | % protection (LCI-UCI) | p value | Total number | Geometric mean (LCI-UCI) | % Protection (LCI-UCI) | p value | ||
Anopheles arabiensis | Untreated | 2526 | 9.4 (8.0–11.0) | – | < 0.001 | 135 | 1.7 (1.4–2.0) | – | 0.034 |
1.5% transfluthrin | 1131 | 4.8 (4.2–5.5) | 56 (47–64) | 80 | 1.3 (1.1–1.6) | 38 (3–60) | |||
Anopheles funestus | Untreated | 751 | 3.0 (2.5–3.6) | – | 0.001 | 21 | 1.2 (1.0–1.5) | – | 0.413 |
1.5% transfluthrin | 445 | 2.4 (2.1–2.8) | 36 (16–50) | 15 | 1.2 (1.0–1.5) | – | |||
Culex species | Untreated | 2986 | 7.8 (6.5–9.3) | – | < 0.001 | 100 | 2.0 (1.6–2.5) | – | 0.003 |
1.5% transfluthrin | 656 | 3.2 (2.8–3.7) | 72 (65–77) | 38 | 1.3 (1.1–1.5) | 62 (29–80) |  | ||
Mansonia species | Untreated | 3510 | 12.9 (10.8–15.5) | – | < 0.001 | 290 | 2.3 (1.9–2.7) | – | 0.001 |
|  | 1.5% transfluthrin | 628 | 3.8 (3.2–4.4) | 80 (75–85) | 150 | 1.8 (1.5–2.2) | 49 (24–66) | ||