Research Article
Transmission Dynamics of Bovine Anaplasmosis in a Cattle Herd
Table 2
Parameter values and sensitivity indices for each of the parameters for the bovine anaplasmosis model (
12).
| Parameter | Description | Value (1/day) | Sensitivity index |
| | Juvenile cattle recruitment rate | | | | Adult cattle recruitment rate | | | | Nymph recruitment rate | | | | Cattle transmission probability | | | | Cattle transmission probability | | | | Ticks transmission probability | | | | Devices transmission probability | | | | Tick biting rate | | | | Devices contact rate | | | | Cattle natural death rate | | | | Ticks natural death rate | | | | Mechanical device decay rate | | | | Disease-induced mortality rate | | | | Disease progression rate | | | | Disease progression rate | | | | Disease progression rate | | | | Juvenile cattle maturation rate | | | | Nymph ticks maturation rate | | | | Devices contamination rate | | | | Fraction in cattle | | | | Fraction in ticks | | |
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