Mathematical Modeling of Coccidiosis Dynamics in Chickens with Some Control Strategies

Table 2

Parameters and their descriptions for the coccidiosis dynamic model Equation (1).

Parameter	Descriptions	Values	Source
	Chicken recruitment rate		Assumed
	Transmission rate for infectious chicken		Assumed
	Eimeria transmission rate due to the chicken-to-environment interaction		Assumed
	Nature death rate of a chicken		[27]
	Chicken incubation rate		Assumed
	Chicken recover rate/treatment rate		Assumed
	Immunity waning rate for the recovered chicken		Assumed
	Chicken death rate due to coccidiosis		Assumed
	Waning rate of vaccinated chicken	0.03/day	Assumed
	Rate at which susceptible chicken are vaccinated	0.001/day	Assumed
	Parasite natural death rate	0.001/day	[13]
	Eimeria death rate due to sanitation measures	0.04/day	Assumed
	Parasite shedding rate to the environment by infectious chicken	0.4/day	[13]