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Table 1 Surveillance tools used to monitor indicators of blood-seeking mosquitoes

From: Nextgen Vector Surveillance Tools: sensitive, specific, cost-effective and epidemiologically relevant

  1. aThe surveillance tools included were: Human landing catch; CDC light trap included CDC light trap with or without lights or lures including placement near an occupied bed net; Human-baited traps included host decoy traps, odour baited entry traps, Ifakara tent traps, the Flavela tent trap, and electrocuting grids near humans; Animal-baited trap included animal baited net traps, animal baited hut traps, Magoon stable traps, and barrier fences around animals; Other fan traps included UV light traps, updraft traps, the BG-Suna trap and the BG-Sentinel trap
  2. bThe percent of informants regularly using each tool was calculated using the total number of informants (n = 40)
  3. cThe frequency with which each surveillance category measured each entomological indicator was calculated using the total number of informants using each tool as the denominator. Frequent use (green circle) was defined as more than 50% of informants using the tool to measure the specific indicator; infrequent use (yellow circle) was defined as less than 50% of informants with red circles indicating the tool was not used to measure an indicator by any of the informants