Table 1.

The infection prevalence and intensity of oocysts and sporozoites by time point.

Day	Parasite stage	Prevalence of infection		Median intensity of infection
		Single BM (%)	Additional BM (%)	Single BM	Additional BM
1st series of DMFAs
8	Oocysts	31	34	2 (1–94)	2 (1–74)
14	Sporozoites	24	42	530 (1 -35′390)	800 (1–79′296)
2nd series of DMFAs
10	Sporozoites	0	5	0	362 (2–5′577)
13	Sporozoites	5	20	1′732 (328–2′364)	999 (1–7′898)
16	Sporozoites	12	23	1364 (5–10′338)	4852 (4–37′109)

Lowest and highest parasite counts are in brackets.

BM Blood meal.