On the role of reinfection in the transmission of infectious diseases |
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Authors: | Schinazi Rinaldo B |
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Affiliation: | LATP/CMI, Université de Provence, 39 rue Joliot Curie, 13453 Marseille Cedex, France. schinazi@cmi.univ-mrs.fr |
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Abstract: | We introduce a spatial stochastic model for the spread of tuberculosis. After a primary infection, an individual may become sick (and infectious) through an endogenous reinfection or through an exogenous reinfection. We show that even in the absence of endogenous reinfection an epidemic is possible if the exogenous reinfection parameter is high enough. This is in sharp contrast with what happens for a mean field model corresponding to our spatial stochastic model. |
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Keywords: | Reinfection Infectious diseases Tuberculosis Spatial stochastic model |
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