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Table 2 Association between proportion of mosquitoes landing on human volunteer and test treatments

From: Less is more: repellent-treated fabric strips as a substitute for full screening of open eave gaps for indoor and outdoor protection from malaria mosquito bites

 

Estimated* mean proportion of released An. arabiensis biting (95% CI)

Odds ratio

(95% CI)

p-value

Indoors

 Treatment

   

  Open eave

0.45 (0.38–0.52)

1

 

  Untreated complete eave screen

0.20 (0.15–0.26)

0.30 (0.20–0.47)

 < 0.001

  Untreated eave strip

0.43 (0.36–0.50)

0.90 (0.66–1.24)

0.520

  Treated complete eave screen (block 2)

0.03 (0.01–0.06)

0.03 (0.02–0.07)

 < 0.001

  Treated complete eave screen (block 3)

0.06 (0.04–0.10)

0.08 (0.04–0.16)

 < 0.001

  Treated eave strip

0.05 (0.03–0.09)

0.07 (0.04–0.13)

 < 0.001

 Volunteer

  No. 1

–

1

 

  No. 2

–

1.06 (0.73–1.55)

0.720

  No. 3

–

1.03 (0.71–1.52)

0.820

  No. 4

–

0.97 (0.53–1.40)

0.910

Outdoors

 Treatment

   

  Open eave

0.54 (0.45–0.63)

1

 

  Untreated complete eave screen

0.50 (0.41–0.60)

0.85 (0.53–1.41)

0.354

  Untreated eave strip

0.57 (0.48–0.65)

1.14 (0.86–1.52)

0.547

  Treated complete eave screen (block 5)

0.42 (0.33–0.51)

0.62 (0.37–1.03)

0.064

  Treated complete eave screen (block 6)

0.19 (0.13–0.28)

0.22 (0.12–0.38)

 < 0.001

  Treated eave strip

0.21 (0.14–0.30)

0.25 (0.15–0.42)

 < 0.001

 Volunteer

  No. 1

–

1

 

  No. 2

–

1.33 (0.83–2.13)

0.230

  No. 3

–

0.90 (0.65–1.26)

0.592

  No. 4

 

0.88 (0.68–1.13)

0.336

  1. *Based on statistical model