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. 2011 Feb 25;11(Suppl 1):S2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-S1-S2

Table 1.

Parameter values.

Parameter Description Value Source
β Baseline transmission rate of the sensitive infection variable
1/µE Expose period (duration between exposure and start of infectiousness) 1.25 days [4,15-18]
1/γ Duration of infectiousness 4 days [4,15,16,18,19]
α Rate of developing drug resistance following start of treatment 10-4 days-1 [16,18]
δT Relative transmissibility of the sensitive infection following treatment 0.4 [15,16,18,20]
δr Relative transmissibility of the resistant infection 0.8 [15,16,18]
p Fraction of infectious individuals diagnosed for treatment or isolation variable
q Fraction of treated infectious individuals without isolation variable
Tc Capacity for treatment and isolation of infectious individuals variable
R0 Basic reproduction number of the sensitive infection variable [3,19,20]

Baseline values of the parameters used for simulations of the models with sources from published literature. For a given value of R0, the baseline transmission rate β can be calculated using the expression R0 = βS0/γ.