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Figure 5

From: Linking environmental variability to village-scale malaria transmission using a simple immunity model

Figure 5

Schematic of the immunology component of HYDREMATS. HYDREMATS models individual mosquito human and mosquito agents. The solid arrows represent processes as individual agents become infected, dashed lines indicate the movement of malaria parasite through mosquito bites. Each human agent has an immunity value imm, which is a function of the past infectious bites received by that individual. When a human is bitten by an infected mosquito, his probability of infection is b, which is a function of imm. After a latent period, the exposed human becomes infectious. The human then recovers at a mean rate of r, which is also a function of imm. A mosquito biting an infectious individual becomes infected with probability c. If infected, he goes through a temperature-dependent latent period and then become infectious to subsequent humans.

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