Research Article
Congenital and Blood Transfusion Transmission of Chagas Disease: A Framework Using Mathematical Modeling
Table 1
Parameters used in numerical simulation of proposed model (
1)-(
8).
| Parameter | Meaning | Value | Source |
| | Birth rate () | 0.0109 | [23] |
| | Probability of vertical transmission | 0.073 | [24] |
| | Mortality rate () | 0.0085 | [25] |
| | Mortality rate due disease () | 0.0017 | [26] |
| | Rate of infection by infected blood () | 0.00022378 | [27, 28] |
| | Cure rate () | Various | |
| | Proportion of new born treated | Various | |
| | Probability of a efficient surveillance | Various | |
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