Is Housing Quality Associated with Malaria Incidence among Young Children and Mosquito Vector Numbers? Evidence from Korogwe, Tanzania (original) (raw)
Figure 4
Total number of indoor mosquitoes vectors collected per household (mean of three occasions) by selected house quality indicators.
There does not appear to be a consistent or gradient relationship between house quality and the mean mosquito numbers across urban and rural areas. In urban areas, the highest quality houses in quintile 5 had a median of zero vectors, and vectors were mainly comprised only of female A gambiae. In contrast, in rural areas, vector numbers were a mix of A. gambiae and funestus, and generally decreased as house quality increased, except for houses in quintile 4. More vectors were collected in houses with cattle nearby.