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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Sep 12.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Parasitol. 2006;62:221–261. doi: 10.1016/S0065-308X(05)62007-6

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Relationship between temperature (a) parasite survival and (b) development duration. Points indicate experimental data (Seamster, 1950; Beer, 1973; Nwosu, 1978; Udonsi & Atata, 1987) and lines are fits derived from fractional polynomials analyses. Regression details: parasite survival y = 0.884 + −22.88x−0.5 + −7.73ln(x); A. lumbricoides duration y = 8.601 + −63.718x− −2 + 2.526x−3; T. trichiura duration y = 26.079 + 41209.68x−−2 + −1715.02x—2; hookworm duration y = 3.701 + 40.88x−−2 + −46.18x−−2