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. 2024 Feb 8;12:RP88283. doi: 10.7554/eLife.88283

Appendix 1—table 2. P. vivax human model parameter values.

Full details can be found in the original publication (White et al., 2018) including references for parameters and intervals for the prior and posterior distributions.

Parameter Symbol Estimate
Human infection duration (days)
Latent period dE 10
Light microscopy-detectable asymptomatic infection 1rLM 10
Clinical disease (untreated) 1rD 5
Treatment of clinical disease 1rT 1
Prophylaxis 1rP 28
Age, heterogeneity, and probability of infection
Age-dependent biting parameter ρ 0.85
Age-dependent biting parameter a0 8 years
Variance of the log heterogeneity in biting rates σ2 1.29
Probability of blood-stage infection upon infectious mosquito bite b 0.5
Hypnozoite parameters
Relapse rate f 0.024 per day
Clearance rate γL 0.0026 per day
Maternal immunity
New-born immunity relative to mother’s clinical immunity Pmat 0.421
Duration of maternal immunity dmat 35.148 days
Anti-parasite immunity reducing probability of light microscopy-detectable infection and duration of PCR-detectable infection
Duration of refractory period in which immunity is not boosted upar 19.77 days
Duration of anti-parasite immunity 1rpar 10 years
Maximum probability of detectability by light microscopy due to no immunity ΦLM,max 0.8918
Minimum probability of detectability by light microscopy due to full immunity ΦLM,min 0.0043
Scale parameter for detectability by light microscopy ALM,50% 27.52
Shape parameter for detectability by light microscopy KLM 2.403
Maximum duration of PCR-detectable infection due to no immunity dPCR,max 70 days
Minimum duration of PCR-detectable infection due to full immunity dPCR,min 10 days
Scale parameter for duration of PCR-detectable infection APCR,50% 9.9
Shape parameter for duration of PCR-detectable infection KPCR 4.602
Clinical immunity reducing probability of clinical disease
Duration of refractory period in which immunity is not boosted uC 7.85 days
Duration of detection immunity 1rC 30 years
Maximum probability of clinical disease due to no immunity ΦD,max 0.8605
Minimum probability of clinical disease due to full immunity ΦD,min 0.018
Scale parameter for clinical disease AD,50% 11.538
Shape parameter for clinical disease KD 2.250