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. 2020 Jan 14;82(1):13. doi: 10.1007/s11538-019-00681-2

Table 2.

Model parameters

Symbol Description (units) Value References
βhd Mosquito-to-human dengue infection rate (humans/(mosquito*day)) 0.25 Braselton and Bakach (2015)
βhz Mosquito-to-human Zika infection rate (humans/(mosquito*day)) 0.15 Manore et al. (2014)
βvd Human-to-mosquito dengue infection rate (days-1) 0.25 Braselton and Bakach (2015)
βvz Human-to-mosquito Zika infection rate (days-1) 0.15 Manore et al. (2014)
βs Zika human sexual transmission rate (days-1) 0.05 Olawoyin and Kribs (2018)
γd Dengue recovery rate (days-1) 0.14 Braselton and Bakach (2015)
γz Zika recovery rate (days-1) 0.14 Shutt et al. (2017)
μ Human birth/death rate (days-1) 4.47×10-5 Braselton and Bakach (2015)
μv Mosquito birth/death rate (days-1) 0.07 Yang et al. (2009)
νd Modification factor for dengue transmission by coinfected mosquitoes 12 Chaves et al. (2018)
kd Relative likelihood of dengue transmission given prior Zika infection >1 Inferred from Kawiecki and Christofferson (2016) and Stettler et al. (2016)
kz Relative likelihood of Zika transmission given prior dengue infection >1 Inferred from Charles and Christofferson (2016), Dejnirattisai et al. (2016), Durbin (2016) and Paul et al. (2016)
νz Modification factor for Zika transmission by coinfected mosquitoes 0.11 Chaves et al. (2018)
Nv Total number of female mosquitoes 457, 092 Olawoyin and Kribs (2018)
Nh Total number of humans 76, 182 Olawoyin and Kribs (2018)