Decoupling environmental effects and host population dynamics for anthrax, a classic reservoir-driven disease.

ABSTRACT: Quantitative models describing environmentally-mediated disease transmission rarely focus on the independent contribution of recruitment and the environment on the force of infection driving outbreaks. In this study we attempt to investigate the interaction between external factors and host's population dynamics in determining the outbreaks of some indirectly transmitted diseases. We first built deterministic and stochastic compartmental models based on anthrax which were parameterized using information from literature and complemented with field observations. Our force of infection function was derived modeling the number of successful transmission encounters as a pure birth process that depends on the pathogen's dispersion effort. After accounting for individual heterogeneity in pathogen

SUBMITTER: Gomez JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6291251 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature