Research Article
Multiple-Strain Malaria Infection and Its Impacts on Plasmodium falciparum Resistance to Antimalarial Therapy: A Mathematical Modelling Perspective
Table 3
Baseline values and range for parameters of model (
11)–(
18).
| Parameter | Value | Range | Units | Source |
| | | () | Cells//day | [69] | | 30 | (10–40) | Cells//day | [70] | | 0.5 | (0-1) | Unitless | Assumed | | 0.4 | (0.1–1) | Unitless | Assumed | | 0.2 | (0.01–1) | Unitless | Assumed | | | | Unitless | [71] | | 1/120 | (0.05–0.1) | | [72] | | 0.5 | (0.3–0.8) | | [73] | | 0.3 | (0.3–0.8) | | Assumed | | 48 | (46–50) | | [69] | | 0.0625 | (0.05–0.1) | | [74] | | 0.05 | (0.02–0.08) | | [74] | | 0.7 | (0.01–0.99) | Unitless | Assumed | | 0.5 | (0-1) | | [73] | P | 16 | (15–20) | Erythrocytes/day | [34] | β | | – | Merozoites/day | [75] | , | 0.02 | (0.01–0.03) | | [75] | | 0.05 | (0.01–0.08) | /day | [70] | | 0.000001 | (0.001–0.9) | | [51] | | 0.2 | (0.01–2.2) | | Assumed | | 0.01 | (0.001–0.1) | | Assumed | | 0.3 | (0-1) | Unitless | Assumed | γ | 0.5 | (0-1) | Immune cell/ | Assumed | | 0.2 | (0-1) | Unitless | [76] |
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