Malaria Epidemiology

Exposure, Infection, Disease, Immunity, Infectiousness, Diagnostics and Detection

Malaria epidemiology, defined here in the narrow sense to mean malaria in humans, encompasses a large set of issues related to exposure, infection, and all the issues that follow from infection. These are handled in order:

• Exposure – a discussion of models for malaria exposure and all the processes affecting the distribution of bites, per person, by vector mosquitoes. In this discussion, we take the density of mosquitoes and infective mosquitoes as inputs, and we focus on time spent, time at risk, and travel malaria.

• Infection – a discussion of models for infection, including

• Disease – a discussion of malaria as a disease

• Immunity – a discussion of models for malaria immunity

• Infectiousness – a discussion of models for malari immunity