Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
DOI
10.4018/jalr.2011040101
Publication Title
International Journal of Artificial Life Research
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
1-18
Abstract
Mathematical modeling of infectious diseases is increasingly used to explicate the mechanics of disease propagation, impact of controls, and sensitivity of countermeasures. The authors demonstrate use of a Rift Valley Fever (RVF) model to study efficacy of countermeasures to disease transmission parameters. RVF is a viral infectious disease that propagates through infected mosquitoes and primarily affects animals but also humans. Vaccines exist to protect against the disease but there is lack of data comparing efficacy of vaccination with alternative countermeasures such as managing mosquito population or destroying infected livestock. This paper presents a compartmentalized multispecies deterministic ordinary differential equation model of RVF propagation among livestock through infected Aedes and Culex mosquitoes and exercises the model to study the efficacy of vector adulticide, vector larvicide, livestock vaccination, and livestock culling on livestock population. Results suggest that livestock vaccination and culling offer the greatest benefit in terms of reducing livestock morbidity and mortality.
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Original Publication Citation
Gaff, H., Burgess, C., Jackson, J., Niu, T., Papelis, Y., & Hartley, D. (2011). Mathematical model to assess the relative effectiveness of Rift Valley Fever countermeasures. International Journal of Artificial Life Research, 2(2), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.4018/jalr.2011040101
Repository Citation
Gaff, Holly; Burgess, Colleen; Jackson, Jacqueline; Niu, Tianchan; Papelis, Yiannis; and Hartley, David, "Mathematical Model to Assess the Relative Effectiveness of Rift Valley Fever Countermeasures" (2011). Biological Sciences Faculty Publications. 636.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/biology_fac_pubs/636
ORCID
0000-0002-4034-2684 (Gaff)