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Comparative Evaluation of Light-Trap Catches, Electric Motor Mosquito Catches and Human Biting Catches of Anopheles in the Three Gorges Reservoir Wang Duo-quan, Tang Lin-hua*, Gu Zhen-cheng, Zheng Xiang, Yang Man-ni, Jiang Wei-kang National Institute of Parasitic Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Center for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasia, Shanghai, China Abstract The mosquito sampling efficiency of light-trap catches and electric motor mosquito catches were compared with that of human biting catches in the Three Gorges Reservoir. There was consistency in the sampling efficiency between light-trap catches and human biting catches for Anopheles sinensis (r = 0.82, P,0.01) and light-trap catches were 1.52 (1.35–1.71) times that of human biting catches regardless of mosquito density (r = 0.33, P.0.01), while the correlation between electric motor mosquito catches and human biting catches was found to be not statistically significant (r = 0.43, P.0.01) and its sampling efficiency was below that of human biting catches. It is concluded that light-traps can be used as an alternative to human biting catches of Anopheles sinensis in the study area and is a promising tool for sampling malaria vector populations. Citation: Duo-quan W, Lin-hua T, Zhen-cheng G, Xiang Z, Man-ni Y, et al. (2012) Comparative Evaluation of Light-Trap Catches, Electric Motor Mosquito Catches and Human Biting Catches of Anopheles in the Three Gorges Reservoir. PLoS ONE 7(1): e28988. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028988 Editor: Thomas J. Templeton, Weill Cornell Medical College, United States of America Received July 19, 2011; Accepted November 18, 2011; Published January 3, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Duo-quan et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distributio