Fig. 4

The influence of varying levels of cattle availability and baseline distribution of human biting exposure indoors and outdoors upon the predicted proportions of all mosquitoes successfully obtaining a blood meal which had previously entered but then left a house unfed in a single feeding cycle (a) or the minimum number of feeding cycles required to acquire and transmit Plasmodium falciparum malaria (b). The predictions presented are based on simulations assuming a setting with high bed net usage (Ω = N) and vector mosquitoes have the same ability as Anopheles arabiensis to avoid fatal contact with LLINs or IRS after entering houses [16–19], so that the insecticide treatment status of the net is irrelevant