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. 2024 Mar 4;23:66. doi: 10.1186/s12936-024-04893-3

Table 4.

Human-vector indicators

Category Indicator An. gambiae1 An. funestus
Directly Measured Biting Proportion biting indoors 0.59 0.71
Proportion biting outdoors 0.41 0.29
Behaviour-Adjusted Exposure—Unprotected Individual Proportion of vector bites occurring indoors for an unprotected individual (πI,u): 0.98 0.98
Proportion of vector bites occurring while asleep for an unprotected individual (πS,u): 0.86 0.89
Behaviour- Adjusted Exposure—ITN-User Proportion of all vector bites prevented by using an ITN (P*): 0.79 0.82
Proportion of human exposure occurring while asleep for a protected user of an ITN (πS,P): 0.34 0.39
Proportion of human exposure occurring indoors but not asleep 0.55 0.49
Proportion of remaining exposure occurring indoors for a protected user of an ITN (πI,p): 0.88 0.87
Behaviour-Adjusted Exposure—Population Mean Proportion of exposure prevented by current levels of ITN use in the population (P*S,C): 0.60 0.62

1Anophelines captured using HLC from 48 houses during 1700—0700 h from May 31st to June 18th, 2021