Malaria's Missing Number: Calculating the Human Component of R0 by a Within-Host Mechanistic Model of Plasmodium falciparum Infection and Transmission
Figure 7
Comparison of distributions of net human infectivity, Di.
The distributions of net human infectivity were calculated for three models: our mechanistic model as well as the compartmental models of Lawpoolsri et al. [29] and Okell et al. [12]. (A) The infectivity for each of 1,000 individuals was integrated over time for each model. The distributions of net infectivity among individuals are represented as violin plots (vertical histograms); the plots extend to the maximum infectivity. (B) Scaled distributions of net infectivity. The distributions in panel (A) were rescaled by multiplying by a scaling factor such that all three distributions had the same mean as that of the mechanistic model. The red crosses illustrate the arithmetic mean infectivity, while the green boxes show the median infectivity.