Table 3. Summary of quantities linking the within-host and between-host scales.
symbol | meaning |
constant of proportionality connecting virus load and direct transmission rate | |
constant of proportionality connecting virus load and environmental transmission rate | |
duration of infectiousness, obtained from the within-host model (equation 10) | |
link-function to connect virus load with transmission, assuming linear relation (equation 12) | |
link-function to connect virus load with transmission, assuming linear relation modified by total shedding (equation 15) | |
link-function to connect virus load with transmission, assuming logarithmic relation (equation 16) |