Computational Methods in Synthetic Biology pp 157-167 | Cite as
A Deterministic Compartmental Modeling Framework for Disease Transmission
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Abstract
Mathematical models for the spread of diseases help us understand the mechanisms on how diseases spread, evaluate the possible effects of interventions, predict outcomes of epidemics, and forecast the course of outbreaks. Compartmental models are widely used in synthetic biology since they can represent a biological system as an assembly of various parts or compartments with different functions. Here we present a framework for the analysis of a compartmental model for the transmission of diseases using ordinary differential equations. We apply this method on a study about the spread of tuberculosis.
Key words
Epidemic Spread of disease Compartmental model Stability analysis Deterministic model Ordinary differential equations TuberculosisNotes
Acknowledgments
AL holds a research fellowship from De La Salle University. The funders had no role in the design of the study, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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