Figure 3

Age-prevalence curves for Namawala transmission scaled by A) 0.2, B) 0.5, and C) 1.0 times baseline vector dynamics. A separate age-prevalence trajectory is displayed for each parasite population diversity combination of (merozoite variants, sets of minor epitopes, PfEMP-1 variants). Parasite diversities with the same number of merozoite variants and the same number of sets of minor epitopes asymptote to the same prevalence, but parasite diversities with greater numbers of PfEMP-1 variants take longer to converge. Parasite densities and prevalence values are smoothed with a 1-year window. Actual data for Namawala is overlaid in panel C.