Following Greischar et al. (2014, 2016a), we use delay‐differential equations to model the within‐host dynamics of a malaria infection, which tracks uninfected red blood cells (R), infected red blood cells (I), extracellular malaria parasites (merozoites, M) and gametocytes (G). The change in density of uninfected red blood cells (RBCs) over time, t, is given by(1)dRdt=λ1−R(t)K−μR(t)−pR(t)M(t).