Figure 1

Mother-infant seasonal P. falciparum prevalence rates during routine vaccination visits. Data adapted from Barber & Olinger (1931) [47], Lagos, Nigeria. (a) P. falciparum prevalence rates in three month old infants and their mothers. Anopheline mosquito inoculation parameters from selected houses throughout Lagos include the Entomological Inoculation Rate (EIR), which is the number of infected mosquito bites per person per month; the Uninfected biting rate, which is the number of uninfected mosquito bites per person per month; the sporozoite rate, which is the percentage of mosquitoes with sporozoites in their salivary glands. (b) Anopheline biting rates (as above) and the relative proportion of mosquitoes with zygote (oocyst stage infections) compared with sporozoite stage infections from which the estimated gametocyte infectious rates can be calculated (see text).