Modeling the Effects of Relapse in the Transmission Dynamics of Malaria Parasites

Table 1

Model parameters.

Parameter	Description	Value
𝜇	Birth and death rate	0.02 years^−1
𝛽	Transmission coefficient	varying
𝜆	Force of infection	varying
𝜏1	Recovery rate from clinical infection	14.12 years^−1
𝜏2	Recovery rate from asymptomatic infections	2.23 years^−1
ω	Relapse rate	12 years^−1
α	Rate of loss of clinical immunity	1.07 years^−1
𝑝1	Proportion of vivax infections which recover with hypnozoites	varying
𝑝2	Proportion of relapses which are clinical	varying