Research Article
Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis of Dysentery Diarrhea Epidemic Model
Table 1
Description of parameters of the model equation (
1).
| Parameters | Interpretation | Units |
| | Recruitment rate of susceptible population | Humans | | Natural death rate of humans | | | Natural recovery rate of diarrhea | | | Relapse rate of the recovered humans to the susceptible class | | | Disease induced death rate of dysentery diarrhea | | | Concentration of Shigella | cells | | Effective transmission rate of diarrhea due to human to human interaction | | | Effective transmission rate of dysentery diarrhea due to environment to human interaction | | | Pathogen shedding rate | Cells | | Shigella Pathogen growth rate | | | Shigella Pathogen death rate | | | Net death rate of Shigella Pathogen | |
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