Parameters | Symbol | Value | Source | |
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Baseline model parameters | Â | Â | Â | |
 | Mosquito density (ratio female mosquitoes/humans) | m | 75 | Assumed value within published range |
 | Human feeding rate, bites per mosquito per day | a | 0.035 - 0.32 | Monthly estimations from fitting cohort data; values within published range |
Mean: 0.088 | ||||
 | Susceptibility of an individual to infection after being bitten by an infectious mosquito | b | 0.05 | Estimation using cohort and published data |
 | Mosquito susceptibility to infection after biting an infectious individual | c | 0.41 | Published data |
 | Duration of human latent period for Pf* in d]’ cays (l = l 1 + l 2 ) | l | 21 | Published data |
 | Duration from sporozoite inoculation to development of blood asexual parasites in days | l 1 | 11 | Published data |
 | Duration from asexual blood stage infection to development of gametocytes in days | l 2 | 10 | Published data |
 | Duration of mosquito latent period in days | n | 11 | Published data |
 | Daily human mortality rate | h | 0.00005 | Published data |
 | Daily mosquito mortality rate | g | 0.16 | Published data |
 | Fraction of symptomatic infections | y | 0.65 | Cohort data |
 | Treatment effectiveness | ε | 0.98 | Published data |
 | Duration of infectious period in treated humans with ACT (in days) | r 1 | 14 | Published data |
 | Duration of infectious period in untreated humans in days (r 2 = r 2a + r 2b ) | r 2 | 200 | Published data |
 | Duration of presence of blood asexual parasites in untreated humans in days | r 2a | 80 | Published data |
 | Duration of infectious period in untreated humans after clearance of blood asexual parasites in days | r 2b | 120 | Published data |
FSAT parameters | Â | Â | Â | |
 | Coverage of FSAT | Δ | 1 | Assumption |
 | Duration of FSAT in days | v | 1 | Assumption |
 | Sensitivity of microscopy for detecting Pf* asexual stages | s 1a | 0.5 | Published data |
 | Sensitivity of microscopy for detecting Pf*gametocytes | s 1g | 0.1 | Published data |
 | Sensitivity of highly sensitive diagnostic tests for detecting asexual stages | s 2a | 0.95 | Assumption |
 | Sensitivity of highly sensitive diagnostic tests for detecting gametocytes | s 2g | 0.8 | Assumption |