Table 1 Baseline characteristics of clusters in each study arm.

From: Community evaluation of VECTRON™ T500, a broflanilide insecticide, for indoor residual spraying for malaria vector control in central Benin; a two arm non-inferiority cluster randomised trial

Characteristics

VECTRON T500

Fludora fusion

N clusters

8

8

Population

12,393

11,278

N households

3030

3005

N structures

6943

5990

ITN usage (%)

93

91

Mean indoor human biting density (per person per night)

3.15

2.52

Mean outdoor human biting density (per person per night)

2.38

2.08

% Anopheles gambiae s.l. in mosquito population

40

43

Entomological inoculation rate (EIR)*

0.05

0.04

Intensity of resistance to pyrethroids

High

High

Susceptibility to broflanilide—6 µg/bottle (% mortality)

95

96

Susceptibility to clothianidin—90 µg/bottle (% mortality)

100

100

  1. *Calculated as sporozoite rate × human biting rate.
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