Figure 4
From: Monitoring the Age of Mosquito Populations Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Illustration of how mosquito age could be used to investigate the impact of pyrethroid resistance. A transmission dynamics mathematical model is used to predict how (I) human slide prevalence of malaria and (II) the mean age of an An. gambiae s.s. mosquito population changes following mass bednet distribution (at 90% coverage) in areas with different levels of pyrethroid resistance. Pyrethroid resistance is measured using a discriminating dose bioassay; be it no resistance (100% mosquito mortality, blue line), 80% mortality (orange line), 60% mortality (green line), 40% mortality (red line), 20% mortality (purple line) or 0% mortality (brown line). See refs6,23 for a description of the mathematical model.
