Table 1 |
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Species composition of mosquitoes collected in human landing collections and pyrethrum knockdown catches in Accra. |
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| Method |
Human landing collection |
Pyrethrum knockdown collection |
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| No. of rounds |
8 |
3 |
| No. man nights or houses |
192 |
408 |
| Total mosquitoes caught |
21,801 |
4,135 |
| No. of Culex spp. |
20,100 (91.8%) |
3,915 (94.7%) |
| No. of Anopheles spp. |
1,648 (7.6%) |
153 (3.7%) |
| A. gambiae s.l. |
1,642 (99.6%) |
146 (95.4%) |
| A. funestus |
0 (0%) |
7 (4.6%) |
| A. coustani |
6 (0.4%) |
0 (0%) |
| No. of Aedes spp. |
111 (0.5%) |
67 (1.6%) |
| No. of Mansonia spp. |
32 (0.1%) |
0 (0%) |
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Klinkenberg et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:151 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-151 |
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