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Figure 1.3, cont'd
Seasonal fluctuations
.The estimates provide the average
P. vivax
endemicity
over a year. Seasonal fluctuations of parasite prevalence were included in
the model structure but aggregated in the outputs. Seasonal estimates are
not currently available and would be confounded by relapses that can occur
outside the transmission season (see the section 'Relapse of
Plasmodium
vivax
blood infections' below).
Smoothness of the global map
. Malaria endemicity can be highly hetero-
geneous over small distances and, therefore, our model produced candidate
maps that are also highly heterogeneous. An artefact of presenting one map
that summarises the full model output using either a mean or a median
