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Table 1 Model parameters and values

From: A global model of malaria climate sensitivity: comparing malaria response to historic climate data based on simulation and officially reported malaria incidence

Parameter

Values reported in the literature

Low

High

Study value

Latent period (human) 1 ε [days]

1541, 9-1044

9

15

12

Latent period (vector)

1041, 1145

10

11

ε ˆ = 1 n (Eq. 4)

1 ε ˆ [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

1 μ [days]

    

Anopheles Model calibration constant k

n/a

n/a

n/a

200*, 34

  1. * 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.