Research Article

Modeling the Impact of Bed-Net Use and Treatment on Malaria Transmission Dynamics

Table 2

Parameters and their descriptions.

Parameters Description and dimension

Recruitment rate into human population )
Recruitment rate into mosquitoes population ()
Treatment rate of infected naive humans ()
Treatment rate of clinically infected immune humans ()
Probability of transmission of infection from infected naive human to susceptible mosquito
Probability of transmission of infection from infected immune human to susceptible mosquito
Number of mosquitoes per human host
Probability of transmission of infection from an infected mosquito to susceptible human
Temperature (°C)
Location parameter (°C)
Maximum biting rate per mosquito ()
Minimum biting rate per mosquito ()
Scale parameter (°C)
Rate at which treated naive individuals recovered without immunity ()
Rate at which naive individuals recovered without immunity ()
Rate at which naive individuals recovered with clinical immunity ()
Rate at which clinically susceptible individuals lose immunity ()
Disease induced death rate for a naive individual ()
Disease induced death rate for a clinically immune individual ()
Recovery rate for clinically immune individuals ()
Density dependent part of the death and emigration rate for humans (human )
Density independent part of the death rate for humans (human )
Density independent part of the death rate for mosquitoes (mosquitoes )
Density dependent part of the death rate for mosquitoes ()
ITN induced death rate for mosquitoes ()