The Centres for Disease Control light trap (CDC-LT) and the human decoy trap (HDT) compared to the human landing catch (HLC) for measuring Anopheles biting in rural Tanzania

Table 3 Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite infection rates (SRs) for An. arabiensis and An. funestus collected by different traps

	Malaria vectors positive by ELISA test
	An. arabiensis			An. funestus			Total
Trap type	Positive	Tested	% Positive	Positive	Tested	% Positive	Positive	Tested	% Positive
Indoor HLC	0	286	0	12	998	1.20	12	1284	0.93
CDC-LT	10	1461	0.68	255	5701	4.47	265	7162	3.70
Outdoor HLC	0	335	0	10	966	1.04	10	1301	0.77
HDT	0	3	0	0	39	0	0	42	0

% positive represents the number of mosquitoes with a positive P. falciparum circumsporozoite protein (CSP) ELISA test divided by the total number of mosquitoes tested
ELISA Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

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