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Models for the in-host dynamics of malaria revisited: errors in some basic models lead to large over-estimates of growth rates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1998

A. SAUL
A. SAUL
Affiliation:
The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, P.O. Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland 4029, Australia
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Abstract

The mathematical model of the in-host dynamics for malaria parasites of Anderson, R. M., May, R. M. & Gupta, S. (1989), Parasitology99 (Suppl.) S59–S79, and subsequently used by other authors, contains an error. This leads to very substantial over-estimates in parasite growth rates. A corrected form of the model is presented in this paper.

Keywords

mathematical modelsPlasmodiummalariadeterministic models
Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 117 , Issue 5 , November 1998 , pp. 405 - 407
Copyright
1998 Cambridge University Press

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