Table 2.
Parameter table.
| Symbol | Description | Default value | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dengue pathology parameters | |||
| b1 | Conversion rate of susceptible hosts into infected | 0.38 | Alphey et al. (2011) |
| b2 | Conversion rate of recovered hosts into secondarily infected | 0.57 | Alphey et al. (2011) |
| α1 | Mortality rate of hosts with a primary infection | 0.000457 per day | Atkinson et al. (2007) |
| α2 | Mortality rate of hosts with a secondary infection | 0.00833 per day | Guzman and Kouri (2002) |
| ρ1 | Recovery rate of hosts from primary infection | 0.17 per day | Alphey et al. (2011) |
| ρ2 | Recovery rate of hosts from secondary infection | 0.17 per day | Alphey et al. (2011) |
| η | Rate of loss of cross-immunity | 0.00833 per day | Alphey et al. (2011) |
| Aedes aegypti parameters | |||
| a | Biting rate per Aedes aegypti adult | 0.5 per day | Alphey et al. (2011) |
| g | The number of eggs laid by adult mosquitoes | 0.7 per day | Alphey et al. (2011) |
| δ | A density-dependent parameter | 0.1 | Bellows (1981) |
| ϕ | The rate at which juvenile larvae develop into mature adults | 0.0541 per day | Alphey et al. (2011) |
| μ | Adult Aedes mortality rate | 0.0741 per day | Alphey et al. (2011) |
| c | Conversion rate of mature mosquitoes into dengue vectors | 0.38 | Alphey et al. (2011) |
| Network configuration parameters | |||
| ωij | Commuter flow. Here a connectivity measure from town j to i | 0 or 1 | |
| mS | Proportion of susceptible hosts who commute | 0.1 | |
| mI | Proportion of infected hosts with a primary infection who commute | 0.1 | |
| Proportion of infected hosts with a secondary infection who commute | 0.01 | ||
| mR | Proportion of recovered hosts who commute | 0.1 | |
| Control parameters | |||
| γi | Vaccination rate | ||
| ζ | (Im)perfect vaccine switch | 0 or 1 | |
| Ψi | A number of released modified mosquitoes | Ratios X:1 to wild-type, where | |
| ϵ | Gene lethality | ||
The full list of parameter terms and their default values for simulations. Suffix i is used to indicate parameters varying by patches (city and towns).