Alterations in mosquito behaviour by malaria parasites: potential impact on force of infection

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Generalized mortality distributions

Distribution	a	b	c	s	f	Daily	Total
Background	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	21.64%	21.64%	15.00%	38.59%
Feeding-associated	21.64%	21.64%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	38.59%
50% of each	11.48%	11.48%	0.00%	11.48%	11.48%	7.811%	38.59%

Three distributions of mortality were used in the model: mortality evenly distributed over a feeding cycle, mortality completely associated with feeding attempts and an intermediate scenario in which mortality half of the mortality was evenly dispersed over a feeding cycle and half of the total mortality was associated with the feeding event.
Symbols: a refers to pre-bite mortality, b refers to post-bite mortality, Total, is the mortality over a cycle.

ISSN: 1475-2875