Table 2.
Submodel | Baseline assumptions | Alternative assumptions |
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Antibody response model |
• Infection with a virus increases the VNT of the virus (direct response model) according to a zero-truncated Poisson distribution • Infection with a virus increases the VNT of the other virus (cross-reactivity model) with a zero-truncated Poisson distribution • Independence of the homologous and cross-reactive responses • Only a fraction of infections lead to a cross-reactive response |
• Different distributions of the response model (zero-truncated negative binomial) • Cross-reactive response is proportional to the infecting virus antibody titer boost |
Risk of infection |
• No circulation of ONNV in Martinique • No other virus with potential for cross-reactive response circulates • CHIKV and ONNV outbreaks occurred in the recent years |
• The annual probability of infection by CHIKV and ONNV is constant (model of endemic circulation) • No CHIKV in Mali |