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Table 2 Distribution of water storage containers and presence of covers, in urban and rural areas

From: Aedes aegypti breeding ecology in Guerrero: cross-sectional study of mosquito breeding sites from the baseline for the Camino Verde trial in Mexico

Type of container

% (proportion) of containers that were covered

Urban sites

Rural sites

Total

Barrels/drums

31 (2034/6499)

37 (3659/9783)

35 (5693/16282)

Concrete tanks

12 (573/4620)

4 (183/4571)

8 (756/9191)

Buckets

27 (1177/4426)

23 (963/4151)

25 (2140/8577)

Plastic tanks

87 (1805/2070)

82 (998/1224)

85 (2803/3294)

Plastic bottles

81 (691/852)

82 (542/662)

81 (1233/1514)

Other storage containers

7 (92/1229)

17 (543/3270)

14 (635/4499)

All storage containers

32 (6372/19696)

29 (6888/23661)

31 (13,260/43357)

  1. See footnote to Table 1 for description of containers
  2. In a few cases, field workers did not record if the container was covered or not