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It is obvious that the characteristics of a specific disease must be understood thoroughly in order to model that disease. Gonorrhea incidence, transmission, symptoms, complications and treatments are described in sections 1.1 and 1.2. Various current and potential control procedures for gonorrhea are described in section 1.3. Among the several basic types of models for infectious diseases described in section 1.4, it is apparent that one type is suitable for gonorrhea. A brief description of previous work on the mathematical modeling of gonorrhea is given. The concepts of the contact number and the infectee number are described in section 1.5.
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Hethcote, H.W., Yorke, J.A. (1984). Background and Basic Concepts. In: Gonorrhea Transmission Dynamics and Control. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 56. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07544-9_1
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