Research Article
Mathematical Modelling of the Transmission Dynamics of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia with Vaccination and Antibiotic Treatment
Table 1
Description of model parameters and their values, indicating baselines, ranges, and references. Units are days
unless otherwise defined.
Proportions.
| Parameter | Description | Baseline value | Value range and references |
| | Effective contact rate | | to [11] |
| | Vaccination efficacy | | to [11] |
| | Proportion vaccinated | | [11] |
| | Vaccination efficiency | | [11] |
| | Proportion immunized | | [11] |
| | Rate of vaccination | | assumed |
| | Rate of loss of vaccinal immunity | | to [11] |
| | Transition rate from exposed to infectious compartment | | to [11] |
| | Natural recovery rate of infectious cattle | | to [11] |
| | Rate of sequestrum formation of infectious cattle | | [11] |
| | Rate of recovery of treated cattle | | to assumed |
| | Rate of sequestrum reactivation | | [11] |
| | Rate of sequestrum resolution | | to [11] |
| | Mortality rate | | to [11] and estimated guess |
| | Birth rate | | to [11] and estimated |
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