Table 1.

Model parameters and values

Parameter	Values reported in theliterature	Low	High	Study value
Latent period (human) $\frac{1}{\epsilon }$ [days]	1541, 9-1044	9	15	12
Latent period (vector)	1041, 1145	10	11	$\hat{\epsilon }=\raisebox{1ex}{$1$}\!\left/ \!\raisebox{-1ex}{$n$}\right.$ (Eq. 4)
$\frac{1}{\hat{\epsilon }}$ [days]
Biting rate (bites by single mosquito in a day) a [day-1]	0.0000833 47	8.33x10-5	0.5	8E-3*,34
	0.543
bites/person-day	0.25-200 41	0	200	0-50*
ma [day-1]	19.3-8250
Immunity loss rate	0.02341,0.002341, 0.0018443	0.00184	0.023	0.0207
α [day-1]
Infectious biting proportion (human)	1.042,47	1.0	1.0	1.0
b
Infectious biting proportion (vector)	1.042,47	1.0	1.0	1.0
c
Recovery rate	0.01147, 0.003544	0.0035	0.011	0.00725
γ [day-1]
Mosquito Life Expectancy	14.142, 7.547, 5.8-10.246	5.8	14.1	14
$\frac{1}{\mu }$ [days]
Anopheles Model calibration constant k	n/a	n/a	n/a	200*, 34

* These are not independent parameters. The calibration of biting rate a and the scaling factor k were chosen to ensure that the number of bites per person per day never exceeded 50 in Thailand, thus obtaining the product a*k = 1.6, with a = 8E-3 [day^-1].^{3, 4} For these values the human population background immunity was in steady state.