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Published on: May 28, 2007
Modelling the aqueous transport of an infectious pathogen in regional communities: application to the cholera
William E Fitzgibbon1, Jeffrey J Morgan1, Glenn F Webb2
1Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
Abstract:
A mathematical model is developed to describe the dynamics of the spread of a waterborne disease among communities located along a flowing waterway. The model is formulated as a system of reaction-diffusion-advection partial differential equations in this spatial setting. The compartments of the model consist of susceptible, infected, and recovered individuals in the communities along the waterway, together with a term representing the pathogen load in each community and a term representing the spatial concentration of pathogens flowing along the waterway. The model is applied to the cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010.
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