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. 2020 Oct 17;2020:8972063. doi: 10.1155/2020/8972063

Table 2.

Parameters of the model and their description.

Parameter Description Value Source
π a Per-capita livestock birth rate 0.1 [37]
ϕ a Livestock vaccination rate 0.7 [37]
π h Per-capita human birth rate 0.02 [38]
σ Human recovery rate 0.25 [37]
μ h Per-capita human natural death rate 0.02 [38]
ψ Livestock vaccine efficacy waning rate 0.4 [31]
β a Within-livestock transmission rate 0.0011 [31]
d Gradual culling of seropositive livestock 0.35 [31]
μ a Per-capita livestock natural mortality rate 0.25 [31]
π w Per-capita wild animal birth rate 0.08 [39]
β w Within-wild animal transmission rate 0.05 [39]
α w Brucella from B to wild animal transmission rate 0.00035 [3]
μ w Per-capita natural death rate of wild animals 0.07 [39]
α Brucella from B to livestock transmission rate 0.00035 [3]
α h Brucella from B to human transmission rate 0.002 [37]
ρ Brucella shedding rate of infected livestock 0.5 [37]
ρ w Brucella shedding rate of infected wild animals 15 [30]
β h Livestock to human transmission rate 0.0002 [37]
ε Decaying rate of Brucella in the environment 8 [31]
τ Environmental hygiene and sanitation rate 12 [3]