Research Article
Mathematical Modeling of Transmission Dynamics and Optimal Control of Vaccination and Treatment for Hepatitis B Virus
Table 1
Parameter values used in numerical simulations.
| Parameter | Description | Values range | Reference |
| | Birth (and death) rate | 0.0121 | [17, 18] | | Transmission rate | 0.8–20.49 | [17] | | Infectiousness of carriers relative to acute infections | 0-1 | [17] | | Rate of moving from exposed to acute | 6 per year | [16] | | Rate at which individuals leave the acute infection class | 4 per year | [16] | | Rate of moving from carrier to recovery | 0.025 per year | [16] | | Loss of recovery rate | 0.03–0.06 | [17] | | Probability of infected newborns | 0.11 | [19] | | Probability of immune newborns | 0.1 | [19] | | Proportion of acute infection individuals becoming carriers | 0.05–0.9 | [17] | | Weight factor for susceptible individuals | 0.091 | [31] | | Weight factor for exposed individuals | 0.01 | [31] | | Weight factor for infected individuals | 0.04 | [31] | | Weight factor for carrier individuals | 0.05 | [31] | | Weight factor for the controls | 1.5 | [31] | | Weight factor for the controls | 2.7 | [31] | | Susceptible individuals | 0.493 | [4] | | Exposed individuals | 0.0035 | [4] | | Acute infection individuals | 0.0035 | [4] | | Chronic HBV carriers | 0.007 | [4] |
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