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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Nov 6.
Published in final edited form as: Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2007;7(3):365–386. doi: 10.1089/vbz.2006.0602

Table 6.

Output Values Indicative of Transmission Intensity Derived from Iterations of the Step-flow Model Parameterized with Values Derived from Placing Individual Avian Species in One Module and a Weighted Average for all Other Birds in the Second Module

Avian species Percentage of all birds Peak IR in vector Day of peak IR in vector Cumulative % of infected + immune in the avian population cumulative % of Day maximum infected + immune reached in avian population Cumulative %of infected + immune birds in study species Day cumulative maximum % of infected + immune birds in study species reached
American Crow 1.5% 0.33 0 2.83 200 0 na
Blue Jay 3.4% 0.33 0 2.89 198 0 na
House Sparrow 5.0% 0.33 0 2.68 192 0 na
Common Grackle 9.0% 3.22 182 42.38 200 68.6 200
Northern Cardinal 5.5% 0.33 0 2.67 183 4.5 58
Northern Mockingbird 3.7% 0.33 0 2.77 191 0 na
American Robin 4.4% 1.52 35 18.12 192 100 73
European Starling 5.9% 0.33 0 2.71 199 0 na

IR, infection rate per 1000 mosquitoes; na, not applicable.