Figure 5. Relationship between trap coverage (C_A) and relative malaria exposure (Ψ_Ω).

This figure shows predicted relationship between proportion of total availability of hosts and pseudo hosts that is accounted for by odor-baited traps (trap coverage; C_A) and resulting relative exposure to malaria (Ψ_Ω) when odor-baited mosquito traps are used in communities where there are no ITNs or in communities where half of the population already uses ITNs. The simulated traps are baited with long-range odors, which can attract at least four times as many malaria mosquitoes as humans [41]. The trap coverage (C_A) can be improved by several means, for example by increasing bait attractiveness, biasing trap locations towards areas with most mosquitoes, increasing the number of traps, or removing cattle from the area. Spatial targeting according to the 80–20 statistical distribution means concentrating the traps in areas where at least 80% of all mosquitoes are found [63]. All data points presented here are sampled from the simulations described in figures 3 and 4.