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Table 2 Bias-corrected maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) and minimum infection rate (MIR) of Japanese encephalitis virus in Shanghai, China from May to November 2016

From: New strains of Japanese encephalitis virus circulating in Shanghai, China after a ten-year hiatus in local mosquito surveillance

Host

No. of individuals

No. of PP

No. of pools

Positive pool rate (%)

MLE (95% CI)

MIR (95% CI)

Culex tritaeniorhynchus

3945

4

255

1.57

1.01 (0.33–2.42)

1.01 (0.02–2.01)

Cx. pipiens (s.l.)

1540

1

256

0.39

1.01 (0.00–1.92)

0.65 (0.04–3.14)

Overall

5485

5

511

0.98

0.91 (0.34–2.01)

0.91 (0.11–1.71)

  1. Abbreviations: PP positive pool, CI confidence interval