Title
The role of animal grazing in the spread of Chagas disease
Date Issued
14 November 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Olmos-Liceaga D.
Velasco-Hernández J.X.
Universidad de Sonora
Publisher(s)
Academic Press
Abstract
Chagas disease is an important neglected tropical disease which causes on average about 7000 deaths per year, and an estimated 25 million people risk of acquiring it. This illness is often found in rural areas, which are usually characterized by poverty and presence of animals which act as reservoirs of the disease. Our main objective is to study the effect of animal grazing on the disease levels of the human population. For this purpose, we consider two environments (domestic and wild) where each one has permanent residents, and there is a proportion of animals that move between both environments due to grazing. This movement is modeled through the residence time in each environment. We analyze the proposed model and finally, we discuss the influence of domestic animals residence time on the disease level of human population.
Start page
19
End page
28
Volume
457
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Medicina tropical Parasitología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85052325586
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Theoretical Biology
ISSN of the container
00225193
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank anonymous referees for their valuable comments and suggestions to improve the quality of the manuscript. JXVH and MAAZ acknowledge support from PAPIIT (UNAM) grant IN110917. MAAZ acknowledges the support of the project No. 265667 from FORDECYT, Mathematics Department ( UNISON ) and CONACYT doctoral fellowship. The authors thank anonymous referees for their valuable comments and suggestions to improve the quality of the manuscript. JXVH and MAAZ acknowledge support from PAPIIT (UNAM) grant IN110917. MAAZ acknowledges the support of the project No. 265667 from FORDECYT, Mathematics Department (UNISON) and CONACYT doctoral fellowship.
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