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C Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax has recently entered the global health agenda in the context of global malaria control towards global malaria elimination [3,4]. Mathematical and statistical models are an important Lover et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2014, 14:539 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/14/539made a range of implicit and explicit assumptions aboutand National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleelimination. This has followed a re-evaluation of the long-held opinion that this parasite causes limited morbidity and essentially no mortality; a range of recent studies sug-gest that it is a major contributor to both in the wide-spread regions where it is endemic [1,2]. Furthermore, the presence of dormant liver forms (hypnozoites) which can area of research in malaria given the complex dynamics of the parasite-host-vector system [5,6]. The majority o