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Table 2 Host-seeking behaviour of Anopheles mosquitoes inside tents with a human by keeping the calf at 1-m distance and without calf, at the shore of the Lake Abaya in Chano Mille, south-west Ethiopia

From: Exploring the impact of cattle on human exposure to malaria mosquitoes in the Arba Minch area district of southwest Ethiopia

Species

Tent with human, calf outside tent at 1 m

Tent with human, no calf outside tent

   

n

Mean (Wald 95% CI)

n

Mean (Wald 95% CI)

Mean ratio

% variation

P-value

An. pharoensis

230

2.42 (1.83–3.10)

126

1.31 (1.02–1.73)

0.54 (1.31/2.42)

46

0.002

An. gambiae (s.l.)

68

0.71 (0.49–1.02)

61

0.66 (0.38–1.14)

0.93 (0.66/0.71)

7

0.800

An. tenebrosus

30

0.3 (0.17–0.53)

26

0.26 (0.16–0.42)

0.87 (0.26/0.30)

13

0.600