Research Article
On a Stochastic Approach to Extensions of the Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) Model Applied to Malaria
Table 3
Contact parameters between humans and mosquitoes and their dimensions.
| | Param. | Meaning | Unity |
| | Number of times a mosquito could bite a human being per unit of time, if human beings were freely available | Time–1 | | Probability of transmission of an infection from an infectious mosquito to a susceptible nonimmune human | Without Dim. | | Probability of transmission of an infection from an infectious mosquito to a susceptible nonimmune human | Without Dim. | | Probability of transmission of infection from an infectious human being to a susceptible mosquito , given that there has been contact between the two | Without Dim. | | Probability of transmission of infection from an infectious human being to a susceptible mosquito , given that there has been contact between the two | Without Dim. |
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