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

Table 3 Comparisons of colored LED collections relative to the control (incandescent light) for trapping experiment at Ijara district, May-June 2011

Vector species	Treatment comparison relative to the control	IRR (95% CI)	P-value
Ae. tricholabis	BGR	0.36 (0.17–0.78)	0.009095 **
	blue	0.20 (0.09–0.45)	4.76e–05 ***
	green	0.11 (0.05–0.25)	2.83e–08 ***
	red	0.10 (0.05–0.22)	5.61e–09 ***
	violet	0.27 (0.12–0.59)	0.000737 ***
Ae. mcintoshi	BGR	0.45 (0.22–0.92)	0.025934 *
	blue	0.56 (0.28–1.13)	0.10305
	green	0.33 (0.16–0.68)	0.002586 **
	red	0.19 (0.09–0.40)	1.41e–05 ***
	violet	0.24(0.11–0.50)	0.000115 ***
Ae. ochraceus	BGR	0.35 (0.16–0.77)	0.009581 **
	blue	0.44 (0.20–0.98)	0.042136 *
	green	0.18 (0.08–0.44)	8.28e–05 ***
	red	0.20 (0.08–0.45)	0.000141 ***
	violet	0.25 (0.11–0.56)	0.000881 ***
Cx. pipiens	BGR	0.41 (0.15–1.10)	0.0567 .
	blue	0.34 (0.13–0.86)	0.0214 *
	green	0.11 (0.04–0.30)	1.08e–05 ***
	red	0.11 (0.04–0.31)	1.26e–05 ***
	violet	0.35 (0.13–0.91)	0.0253 *

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.

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