Table 2 Comparisons of indoor and outdoor resting of malaria vectors between two house types
Experiments | Description | Indoor resting mosquitoes caught by Prokopack® aspirators | Outdoor resting mosquitoes caught by Prokopack® aspirators | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean no. mosquitoes/night (95% CI) | Odds ratio (95%CI) | p-value | Mean no. mosquitoes/night (95% CI) | Odds ratio (95%CI | p-value | |||
Experiment 1: Light-opaque walls vs light-transparent walls | ||||||||
|  | Opaque-walled | 1.3 (0.8–2.1) | 1 |  | 8.1 (6.9–9.5) | 1 |  | |
Transparent-walled | 1.1 (0.7–1.9) | 0.89 (0.74–1.05) |  = 0.17 | 4.9 (4.1–5.8) | 0.57 (0.54–0.64) |  < 0.001 | ||
Experiment 2: Open gaps under roofing vs closed gaps under roofing | ||||||||
|  | Open eave-gaps | 9.4*e−4 (0.0–0.1) | 1 |  | 59.1 (56–62) | 1 |  | |
Closed eave-gaps | 1.7*e−4 (0.0–0.01) | 0.19 (0.08–0.44) |  < 0.001 | 60.6 (57.6–63.5) | 1.07 (1.02–1.12) |  = 0.008 | ||
Experiment 3: Poorly ventilated vs well-ventilated | ||||||||
|  | Traditional | 0.5 (0.3–0.8) | 1 |  | 50.1 (46.4–53.8) | 1 |  | |
Star-homes type | 0.1 (0–0.1) | 0.12 (0.06–0.23) |  < 0.001 | 75.3 (72.5–78.0) | 3.04 (2.90–3.20) |  < 0.001 | ||