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 valueValue 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