Fig. 3

A Shows two time series of points, the top representing the log10 of the daily mean parasitaemia on a given day across all continued patent infections as in Fig. 2A and the bottom green time series represents the corresponding log10 daily mean gametocytaemia. A fit to predict gametocytaemia from lagged parasitaemia was performed across many lags, and the optimal lag was determined by the minimum of the standard deviation of the lagged residuals shown in C. The linear fit at the optimal lag of 9 days in presented in panel B