Problems with continuous-time malaria models in describing gametocytogenesis

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 881-896

  Crooks, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gametocytes; Malaria; Mathematical models; Optimal gametocyte investment; Plasmodium falciparum; Within host dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOGENESIS; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA; MALE; MEROZOITES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; TIME FACTORS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 46749133098     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008004502     Document Type: Article

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