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a
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Availability of individual hosts for attack: rate at which a single mosquito encounters and then attacks a given single host or pseudo-host [24].
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A
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Total availability of hosts and pseudo hosts: rate at which a single mosquito encounters and attacks all hosts and pseudo hosts [24].
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b
h
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The mean number of bites upon humans per emerging mosquito during its lifetime [15, 30].
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b
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The mean number of bites upon all human and non-human hosts per emerging mosquito during its lifetime.
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β
h
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The mean number of infectious, sporozoite-infected bites upon humans per emerging mosquito during its lifetime [15, 30].
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β
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The mean number of sporozoite-infected bites upon all hosts, regardless of their susceptibility to infection, per emerging mosquito during its lifetime.
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c
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Cattle [12, 15, 24, 28, 42].
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C
h
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Crude coverage [12, 15, 24, 28, 42]: Proportion of people using LLIN as estimated in standardized malaria indicator surveys [82, 83].
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C
h,p
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Protective coverage: The proportion of all exposure of the human population which is effectively covered by LLIN use at times when that exposure actually occurs.
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DDT
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Dichloro-diphenyl-dicloroethylene [14].
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Δ
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Probability that a mosquito which encounters a host will be diverted from that host [12, 15, 24].
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ε
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Host-encounter rate: rate at which a single host-seeking mosquito encounters a given single hosts [12, 15, 24, 28, 42].
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E
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Emergence rate of mosquito vectors per year [12, 15, 24, 28].
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EIR
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Entomological inoculation rate (mean number of infectious bites that an average individual human receives per year) [84–87].
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ϕ
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Probability that a mosquito which attacks a host will successfully feed upon that host [12, 15, 24, 28, 42].
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f
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Feeding cycle length: measured as the number of days it takes a single mosquito to get from one blood feed to the next [12, 15, 24, 28].
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g
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Gestation interval: number of days a mosquito takes to digest a blood meal and return to searching for oviposition site [12, 15, 24, 28].
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h or c
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Humans or cattle, respectively [12, 15, 24, 28, 42].
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IRS
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Indoor residual spraying [10, 49]
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κ
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Human infectiousness to mosquitoes: probability of a vector becoming infected per human bite [29, 30, 88, 89].
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LLIN
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Long-lasting insecticidal net [90]
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λ
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Relative availability for attack of a given non-human host type, calculated as quotient of the mean individual attack availability of those hosts divided by the mean individual attack availability of humans not using LLINs [24].
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μ
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Probability that a mosquito which attacks a host will die during the attack [12, 15, 24].
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η
o
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Oviposition site-seeking interval: number of days a mosquito takes to find an oviposition site once it starts searching for it [12, 15, 24, 28].
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η
v
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Host-seeking interval: number of days a mosquito takes to find and attack a vertebrate host [12, 15, 24, 28].
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net or 0
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LLIN user or non-user, respectively
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N
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Number of hosts [12, 15, 24, 28].
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θ
Δ
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Excess proportion of mosquitoes which are diverted while attempting to attack a human while using an LLIN [24].
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θ
μ
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Excess proportion of mosquitoes which are killed while attacking a human while that person is using an LLIN [24].
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θ
μ,pre
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Excess proportion of mosquitoes which are killed before blood feeding while attacking a human while using an LLIN.
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θ
μ,post
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Excess proportion of mosquitoes which are killed after blood feeding while attacking a human while that person is using an LLIN.
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Ω or 0
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Intervention package scenarios consisting of a specific coverage with LLINs with specific deterrent and toxic properties, with 0 denoting baseline conditions with negligible net coverage, simulated by setting C
h
= 0.001 [24].
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π
i
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The proportion of normal exposure to mosquito bites upon humans lacking LLINs, which occurs indoors at times when nets would normally be in use [25–27, 37].
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p or u
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Specifies values of parameters for humans while actually using and protected by an LLIN, or those which are unprotected who do not use or are outside of their nets, respectively.
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P
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Probability that a resting mosquito survives any one day [15, 91].
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P
f
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Probability that a mosquito survives a single complete feeding cycle [12, 15, 24, 28, 30].
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P
ov
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Probability that a mosquito survives any full day of the oviposition site-seeking interval or host-seeking interval [12, 15, 24].
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Q
h
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Human blood index: the proportion of all blood meals from all hosts which are obtained from humans [12, 15, 24, 28, 30].
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γ
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Probability that a mosquito attacks an encountered host [12, 15, 24].
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ψ
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Relative exposure of different hosts other than unprotected humans to infectious mosquito bites: calculated as a ratio of exposure of those hosts to exposure of humans not using nets [24].
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WHO
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World Health Organization
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z
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Availability of blood from an individual host: rate at which a single mosquito encounters, attacks and successfully feeds upon a given single host [24]
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Z,Z
h
,Z
c
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Total availability of blood from all hosts, all humans and all cattle, respectively: rate at which a single mosquito encounters, attacks and successfully feeds upon these host sets [24]
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Z
a
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Total availability of aquatic habitats: rate at which a single mosquito encounters and successfully oviposits into all aquatic habitats
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