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From February 2021 to July 2022, households were interviewed monthly, and five questions were used to ask participants how often they were bitten by mosquitoes at different times during the day. At the same time, adult mosquitoes were collected using a Prokopack aspirator. Species were identified and counted. Survey responses were compared with the total number of mosquitoes found in the home using negative binomial regression. More frequent self-reported mosquito bites were significantly associated with higher numbers of collected adult mosquitoes. These associations were driven by the prevalence of the dominant genera, <jats:italic>Culex<\/jats:italic>. These results suggest that surveys of perceived mosquito bites relate to actual mosquito presence, making them a potentially useful tool for determining the impact of vector\u2013control interventions on community perceptions of risk but less useful for assessing the risk of nondominant species such as <jats:italic>Aedes aegypti<\/jats:italic>. Further work is needed to examine the robustness of these results in other contexts.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.22-0371","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,10]],"date-time":"2023-04-10T13:37:39Z","timestamp":1681133859000},"page":"981-986","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Validity of Self-Reported Mosquito Bites to Assess Household Mosquito Abundance in Six Communities of Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"108","author":[{"given":"Brian","family":"Glover","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gwenyth O.","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Rutgers Global Health Institute, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New 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