The optimal production of gametocytes by Plasmodium falciparum.

Abstract excerpt

We use a simple model of the blood-stage infection dynamics of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to consider the adaptive significance of different rates of conversion from its pathogenic, asexual stages to its transmissible, sexual forms. We find that maximize transmissivity in single-s...

Topics

• Animals
• Gametogenesis
• Genotype
• Host-Parasite Interactions
• Humans
• Malaria
• Models, Biological
• Plasmodium falciparum