Field evaluation of two commercial mosquito traps baited with different attractants and colored lights for malaria vector surveillance in Thailand

Table 5 Efficacy of BGS trap and different colored lights relative to the CDC LT and the incandescent light for capturing anophelines and An. minimus females

	Treatment	IRR	95% CI	χ ²	P-value
♀ Anopheline	CDC light trap (reference)
	BG-sentinel	0.13	0.09–0.19	130.26	< 0.0001
	Incandescent (reference)
	UV (10–400 nm wavelength)	0.80	0.50–1.29	0.83	0.363
	Green (490–570 nm wavelength)	0.48	0.30–0.77	9.12	0.003
	Red (620–780 nm wavelength)	0.50	0.31–0.81	8.09	0.004
♀ An. minimus	CDC light trap (reference)
	BG-sentinel	0.11	0.08–0.17	120.68	< 0.0001
	Incandescent (reference)
	UV (10–400 nm wavelength)	0.81	0.48–1.37	0.61	0.436
	Green (490–570 nm wavelength)	0.51	0.30–0.87	6.14	0.013
	Red (620–780 nm wavelength)	0.43	0.25–0.74	9.37	0.002

Abbreviations: IRR estimated incident rate ratio, CI confidence interval, corresponding P-value based on maximum likelihood estimation of GLM with negative binomial error and log link function

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