Figure 8

Impact of ITNs on mosquito abundance, using household-level partial coverage with multiple chances for host-seeking. The figure depicts the results of applying ITNs (in isolation) with household-level partial coverage, as the results of GN-ITN [11] are replicated. Each subfigure represents a specific combination of coverage (C) and repellence (R) for ITNs: (1) C = 0.6, R = 0.2, (2) C = 0.6, R = 0.9, (3) C = 1.0, R = 0.2 and (4) C = 1.0, R = 0.9. Within each subfigure, each colour-coded plot represents a specific mortality (M) value for ITNs (e.g., M = 0.5), with mortality (M) colour keys at the bottom of the figure. The x-axis denotes simulation time (in days) and the y-axis denotes mosquito abundance. For brevity, the 100 days results (day 100 - day 199) for a subset of the parameters (from Table 3) are shown; the full one-year results, for the entire parameter space, for partial coverage schemes with single and multiple chances, are shown in Additional files 9 and 10, respectively. The figure represents averages of a total of 600 (2 × 2 × 3 × 50) simulations. A non-absorbing boundary is used. For partial coverage schemes, see Figure 3 and Methods.