The frequency and impact on the time to patency in humans of mosquito bites with ≤10 residual-sporozoites.

<p>Grey bars show how many volunteers received bites from mosquitoes with ≤10 salivary gland sporozoites. Black dots (and line) show model predictions for the mean time to patency for volunteers with different number of (≤10) bites. As the impact of the lightly infected bites will depend on the number of residual-sporozoites in the bites the volunteer received, in this example all volunteer receive 5 bites from mosquitoes with 101–1000 residual-sporozoites in addition to the extra mosquito bites with ≤10 residual-sporozoites.