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Human Infectious Age

  • Raw data: colon separated values (ASCII file)

  • PMA Pmethod GMA Gmethod note Refs
    8 (median) microscope -8.0 -8 malariatherapy patients Collins and Jeffery 1999
    NA NA 10.0-14.0 microscope - Day et al. 1998
    NA NA 11.0 microscope GMA: duration between first day of symptoms and gametocyte appearance Garnham 1949
    9.8/10.3/13.0 NA 11.5 (large majority: 10-13) microscope PMA:Santee-Cooper/Panama/McLendon strain of Plasmodium falciparum; GMA: duration between the first occurrence of asexual parasites and gametocyte appearance Jeffery et al. 1959
    NA NA 11.7 (range: 6.0-30.0) microscope GMA: duration between first day of symptoms and gametocyte appearance Miller 1958
    7.0-10.0 presence established in culture NA NA patients without antimalarial immunity Rickman et al. 1990
    14.0-16.5 microscope NA NA patients without antimalarial immunity Rickman et al. 1990
    6.0-7.0 QT-NASBA NA NA experimental infection Schneider et al. 2005
    8.3 microscope NA NA experimental infection Schneider et al. 2005
    NA NA 10.0 microscope GMA: duration between first day of fever and gametocyte appearance Shute and Maryon 1951

    Abbreviations

    PMAasexual malaria parasite mature age [days]
    Pmethodmethod of asexual malaria parasite detection
    GMAgametocyte mature age, i.e. the duration of gametocytogenesis [days]
    Gmethodmethod of gametocyte detection
    notenotes
    Refsreferences
    NArefers to data that was not available in the reference
    ?the question mark refers to references that were not checked, since they were not available