Themes

• PfPR \(\times\) Age :: In 2007, I led a collaborative paper that had aggregated and analyzed a large set of studies of the prevalence of infection with Plasmodium falciparum by age, traditionally called the P. falciparum parasite rate (PfPR) [1].

• EIR vs. PfPR :: In 2005, I published a paper looking at the relationship between the PfEIR and the PfPR [2]. The data set we used has a longer history.

• EIR vs. FoI :: As a follow-up to the 2005 EIR-PR paper, we looked at the relationship between the EIR and the force of infection (FoI) [3].

References

1.

Smith DL, Guerra CA, Snow RW, Hay SI. Standardizing estimates of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate. Malar J. 2007;6: 131. doi:10.1186/1475-2875-6-131

2.

Smith DL, Dushoff J, Snow RW, Hay SI. The entomological inoculation rate and Plasmodium falciparum infection in African children. Nature. 2005;438: 492–495. doi:10.1038/nature04024

3.

Smith DL, Drakeley CJ, Chiyaka C, Hay SI. A quantitative analysis of transmission efficiency versus intensity for malaria. Nature Communications. 2010;1: 108. doi:10.1038/ncomms1107