The basic reproductive ratio of Barbour’s two-host schistosomiasis model with seasonal fluctuations

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• 作者：Shu-Jing Gao ; Hua-Hua Cao ; Yu-Ying He ; Yu-Jiang Liu ; Xiang-Yu Zhang…
• 关键词：Schistosomiasis japonica ; Mathematical model ; Seasonal fluctuation ; Basic reproductive ratio ; Parameter estimation ; Barbour’s two ; host model
• 刊名：Parasites & Vectors
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：10
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1067KB
• 刊物主题：Parasitology; Entomology; Tropical Medicine; Infectious Diseases; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; Virology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1756-3305
• 卷排序：10

文摘

BackgroundMotivated by the first mathematical model for schistosomiasis proposed by Macdonald and Barbour’s classical schistosomiasis model tracking the dynamics of infected human population and infected snail hosts in a community, in our previous study, we incorporated seasonal fluctuations into Barbour’s model, but ignored the effect of bovine reservoir host in the transmission of schistosomiasis. Inspired by the findings from our previous work, the model was further improved by integrating two definitive hosts (human and bovine) and seasonal fluctuations, so as to understand the transmission dynamics of schistosomiasis japonica and evaluate the ongoing control measures in Liaonan village, Xingzi County, Jiangxi Province.