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. 2016 Oct 21;407:349–361. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.07.034

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
mI2 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 0<γi<1
ζ (Im)perfect vaccine switch 0 or 1
Ψi A number of released modified mosquitoes Ratios X:1 to wild-type, where 0<X<10
ϵ Gene lethality 0<ϵ<1

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).