Table 1. General default variable and parameter values for the Rogers model for two-host species trypanosomiasis [25].
Default | ||
N1 | Number of animals of species 1 | 300 |
N2 | Number of animals of species 2 | 50 |
V | Number of tsetse | 5000 |
p 1 | Proportion of tsetse bloodmeals from species 1 | 0.3 |
P 2 | Proportion of tsetse bloodmeals from species 2 | 0.7 |
u | Daily mortality rate of the flies | 0.030 |
d | Duration of feeding cycle in flies | 4 |
a1 = p1/d, a2 = p2/d, m1 = V/N1, m2 = V/N2 |
See the original paper for further details and Table 2 for default parameter values specific for the different species of trypanosomes.