Table 1.

Parameters of the submodels.

Symbol	Description	Value	Source/details
Ttrans	Infectious period of transiently infected hosts	1 week	[58,67]
$P_{inf}^{\left(i\right)}$	Infection probability within/between herds	2.08·10-2	Reversely fitted to the estimated disease spread velocity of approx. 8 km per quarter [20]
$P_{inf}^{\left(e\right)}$		2.08·10-3
M	Case mortality (subadults, see section "Disease course")	(0.0, 0.1, ..., 1.0)
μ	Expectation value of the exponential distribution of life expectancy of lethally infected hosts	(1, 2, ..., 10) weeks
u(a)	Bait uptake rates adults/yearlings/piglets	0.33	Piglet uptake rates low to represent difficulties in vaccination of juveniles, younger than 4-5 months [12,60].
u(y)		0.33
u(p)		0.05

For the complete list of parameters see Additional file 1.