Research Article
Stability of a Two-Strain Tuberculosis Model with General Contact Rate
Table 1
Description and estimation of parameters.
| | Parameter | Description | Estimated value |
| | Recruitment rate of susceptible individuals into the community | 2 year−1 | | Transmission coefficient of sensitive strain | Variable | | Transmission coefficient of resistant strain | Variable | | Naturally death rate | 0.01 year−1 | | Rate of progression from infection to infectious for sensitive strain | 0.005 year−1 | | Rate of progression from infection to infectious for resistant strain | 0.005 year−1 | | Rate of effective chemoprophylaxis to sensitive strain | 0 | | Rate of effective therapy to sensitive strain | 0.4 year−1 | | Disease-induced mortality rate of sensitive strain | Variable | | Disease-induced mortality rate of resistant strain | Variable | | Proportion of sensitive TB individuals received effective therapy that have progression to the class | 0.9 year−1 |
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