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. 2015 Oct 20;5:15468. doi: 10.1038/srep15468

Table 1. Baseline parameter values and range of variation analysed.

Parameter Description Baseline Value Considered range
Disease related
 1/γ Mean duration of infectiousness 1 month Fixed
l Relative duration of latency compared to the infectiousness duration 2 10−10 − 100
R0 Basic reproductive number 2 1 − 5
b Relative hazard of secondary infection 1 0 − 2
σ Infection-relative death rate 0 0 − 0.1 (/person/month)
Vaccine related
α Vaccine efficacy 0.7 0 − 1
f Vaccine coverage 0.5a 0 − 1a
i Proportion of vaccinated individuals totally immunized 0 0 − αb
c Relative infectiousness of vaccinated infectious individuals 1 0 − 1
Demographic
μ Natural annual death rate 16/1 000 persons/year i.e. 62.5 years life expectancy Fixed

aVaccine coverage used for the post-vaccination phase, as this is null in the pre-vaccine phase.

bThe proportion of individuals completely protected after vaccination cannot exceed vaccine efficacy.