Background Neotricula aperta is the snail-intermediate host of the parasitic blood-fluke Schistosoma mekongi which causes Mekong schistosomiasis in Cambodia and the Lao PDR. Despite numerous phylogene
MAP estimates of parameters, with 95% credible intervals in brackets, and estimated R0 (R0 is defined as the average number of female parasites produced by a single female parasite over the course of
The five parameters comprising the classical formula for vectorial capacity (VC or denoted V), describing the total number of infectious bites arising from all the mosquitoes feeding on a single human