Table 5 Exogenous variables considered in the infectious disease models
Exogenous variable | Used variable | Depending on | Default value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Human Biting Density | ma or HBD | [blood-meals/person/night] | Total mosquitoes captured (indoor and outdoor landing captures 06:00–09:00 pm) | |
Sporozoite Rate | s or SR | [dec] | 0.07–0.12 | |
Human susceptibility (efficiency with which an infective mosquito infects a susceptible human) | S_H | [dec] | 1.00 | |
Mosquito susceptibility (efficiency with which an infective human infects a susceptible mosquito) | S_V | [dec] | 1.00 | |
Proportion of infective female vectors (proportion of those anophelines with sporozoites in their salivary glands which are actually infective) | b | [dec] | 0.01 | |
Recovery rate in man | C1 | [dec] | 1.00 | |
Transmission rate | f | [1/days] | f (Risk) | (G) |