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ArticleJournal of mathematical biology2026

Superinfection and the hypnozoite reservoir for Plasmodium vivax: a multitype branching process approximation.

Somya Mehra, Peter G Taylor

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Article in Journal of mathematical biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Somya MehraNuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. somya@tropmedres.ac.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0507-3204
Peter G TaylorSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.

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Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems CE230100001Clarendon Fund Keble College Sloane Robinson/Clarendon ScholarshipUniversity of Oxford Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine Studentship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plasmodium vivax malaria is a mosquito-borne disease of significant public health importance. A defining feature of the within-host biology of P. vivax is the accrual of a hypnozoite reservoir, comprising a bank of quiescent parasites in the liver that are capable of causing relapsing blood-stage infections upon activation. Superinfection, characterised by composite blood-stage infections with parasites derived from multiple mosquito inoculation or hypnozoite activation events, is another important attribute. We have previously developed a stochastic epidemic model of P. vivax malaria, formulated as a Markov population process with countably infinitely-many types, that is adjusted for both hypnozoite accrual and blood-stage superinfection. Here, we construct a Markovian branching process with countably infinitely-many types to approximate the early stages of this epidemic model. With

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Malaria, VivaxModels, BiologicalPlasmodium vivaxSuperinfectionAnimalsComputer SimulationCulicidaeDisease ReservoirsEpidemicsHumansMarkov ChainsMathematical ConceptsMosquito VectorsStochastic Processes

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PMID42337133
PMCPMC13290833

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