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. 2021 Nov 18;12:6735. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26707-9

Table 2.

Summary of the assumptions of the antibody response model and in the model of virus circulation. Alternative assumptions are tested in additional sensitivity analysis. VNT: Virus neutralization titer.

Submodel Baseline assumptions Alternative assumptions
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