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Amanda Linda Jean Duffus1, Joshua Paul Standridge2, Patricia Lillian Bartlett1
1Health of Herpetofaunal Communities Research Group, Department of STEM, School of Nursing, Health, and STEM, Gordon State College, Barnesville, GA 30204, USA.
Abstract:
Emerging infectious diseases are major threats to amphibian biodiversity. Ranaviruses (Family Iridoviridae) are a group of globally emerging infections that infect poikilothermic vertebrates. In the United Kingdom, the emergence of this group of viruses has been followed by the decline in populations of common frogs (Rana temporaria) across the country, especially in the southeast of England. Simple susceptible-infected (SI) and combinatorial models have been developed to explain the spread of ranavirus in populations of common frogs; here, we use those models as a basis for developing a simple transmission model using cellular automata with the programming language Python.
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