Togetherness among Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes: Interpretation through simulation and consequences for malaria transmission

Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 427-435

  Gaillard, F O ^a   Boudin, C ^b   Chau, N P ^c   Robert, V ^d   Pichon, G ^a,e  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

^e UR Geodes   (France)

Author keywords

Central Africa; Density dependency; Gametocyte aggregation; Individual based modelling (IBM); Malaria transmission; Plasmodium falciparum; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COUNT; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; INDIVIDUAL BASED POPULATION MODEL; MALARIA; MALE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROSCOPY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENEGAL; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0344442873     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182003004025     Document Type: Article

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