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Tuberculosis
Findings from C.P. Bhunu and co-researchers advance knowledge in tuberculosis
July 8th, 2008
"A tuberculosis model which incorporates treatment of infectives and chemoprophylaxis is presented. The model assumes that latently infected individuals develop active disease as a result of endogenous re-activation, exogenous re-infection and disease relapse, though a small fraction is assumed to develop active disease soon after infection," scientists writing in the journal Bulletin of Mathematical Biology report. "We start by formulating and analyzing a TB model without any intervention strategy that we extend to incorporate chemoprophylaxis and treatment of infectives. The epidemic thresholds known as reproduction numbers and equilibria for the models are...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-07-08)
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