Trapping of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) vectors using Light Emitting Diode (LED) CDC traps in two arboviral disease hot spots in Kenya

Parasites & Vectors

Table 2 Comparisons of colored LED collections relative to the control (incandescent light) for trapping experiment at Ijara district, December 2010

Vector species	Treatment comparison relative to the control	IRR (95% CI)	P-value
Ae. tricholabis	BGR	0.78 (0.36–1.67)	0.511
	blue	0.37 (0.17–0.81)	0.0113 *
	green	0.41 (0.19–0.89)	0.0220 *
	red	0.44 (0.20–0.97)	0.0336 *
	violet	0.47 (0.22–1.02)	0.0539 .
Ae. mcintoshi	BGR	1.44 (0.60–3.44)	0.4031
	blue	0.46 (0.19–1.13)	0.0878 .
	green	0.63 (0.26–1.55)	0.3093
	red	0.72 (0.30–1.74)	0.4552
	violet	0.33 (0.13–0.83)	0.0182 *
Ae. ochraceus	BGR	0.99 (0.23–4.27)	0.16989
	blue	1.24 (0.29–5.32)	0.22918
	green	1.07 (0.25–4.60)	0.22939
	red	0.79 (0.19–3.39)	0.11809
	violet	0.27 (0.12–0.57)	0.000384 ***

Estimated incidence rate ratio (IRR); Confidence interval (CI) and corresponding P-values; Asterisks indicate that the index is significantly different from unity at the P,0.05 (*), P,0.01 (**), P,0.001 (***) levels of probability.