Pigsties near dwellings as a potential risk factor for the prevalence of Japanese encephalitis virus in adult in Shanxi, China

Table 5 Minimum infection rate (MIR) of JEV in mosquitoes in this study

Collection sites	Mosquito species	No. Individuals	No.pools	No. Positive Pools	MIR (/1000)
The courtyards of farmers’ households with pigsties^a	Culex tritaeniorhynchus	723	8	5	6.92
	C. pipiens pallens	360	5	3	8.3
	Subtotal	1 083	13	8	7.39
Pig farm^b	C.tritaeniorhynchus	2 433	26	7	2.88
	C. pipiens pallens	552	6	1	1.81
	Subtotal	2 985	32	8	2.68
The courtyards of farmers’ households without pigsties^c	C. tritaeniorhynchus	2 649	33	0	0
	C. pipiens pallens	1 054	10	0	0
	Subtotal	3 703	43	0	0

^aCourtyards of three farmers’ households with pigsties (farmers A, B, and C shown in Table 4)
^bTwo pig farms (pig farms A and B in Table 4)
^cCourtyards of five farmers’ households without pigsties

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