Monitoring mosquitoes in urban Dar es Salaam: Evaluation of resting boxes, window exit traps, CDC light traps, Ifakara tent traps and human landing catches

Table 1 Number of mosquitoes caught by different methods and crude estimates of sensitivity relative to indoor human landing catch

Collection methods	Trap night	Total catch	Mean catch	Relative sensitivity
Anopheles gambiae s.l.
Resting boxes indoor	156	6	0.038	0.01
Resting boxes out	156	3	0.019	0.005
Window trap	156	21	0.135	0.036
CDC light trap	155	30	0.194	0.052
Ifakara tent trap	156	216	1.385	0.374
HLC outdoor	156	748	4.795	1.294
HLC indoor	156	578	3.705	NA
Anopheles funestus
Resting boxes indoor	156	0	0	0
Resting boxes outdoor	156	0	0	0
Window trap	156	0	0	0
CDC light trap	155	0	0	0
Ifakara tent trap	156	1	0.006	0.158
HLC outdoor	156	19	0.122	3.210
HLC indoor	156	6	0.038	NA
Anopheles zeimanii
Resting boxes indoor	156	4	0.03	0.017
Resting boxes outdoor	156	2	0.01	0.005
Window traps	156	2	0.01	0.005
CDC light traps	155	2	0.01	0.005
Ifakara tent traps	156	9	0.06	0.033
HLC outdoors	156	460	2.95	1.629
HLC indoors	156	283	1.81	NA
Culex spp
Resting boxes indoor	156	293	1.878	0.017
Resting boxes outdoor	156	931	5.968	0.053
Window traps	156	2208	14.153	0.125
CDC light traps	155	7435	47.968	0.423
Ifakara tent traps	156	6585	42.212	0.372
HLC outdoors	156	20163	129.250	1.140
HLC indoors	156	17688	113.385	NA

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