Research Article
Mathematical Modeling of Coccidiosis Dynamics in Chickens with Some Control Strategies
Table 2
Parameters and their descriptions for the coccidiosis dynamic model Equation (
1).
| Parameter | Descriptions | Values | Source |
| | Chicken recruitment rate | | Assumed | | Transmission rate for infectious chicken | | Assumed | | Eimeria transmission rate due to the chicken-to-environment interaction | | Assumed | | Nature death rate of a chicken | | [27] | | Chicken incubation rate | | Assumed | | Chicken recover rate/treatment rate | | Assumed | | Immunity waning rate for the recovered chicken | | Assumed | | Chicken death rate due to coccidiosis | | Assumed | | Waning rate of vaccinated chicken | 0.03/day | Assumed | | Rate at which susceptible chicken are vaccinated | 0.001/day | Assumed | | Parasite natural death rate | 0.001/day | [13] | | Eimeria death rate due to sanitation measures | 0.04/day | Assumed | | Parasite shedding rate to the environment by infectious chicken | 0.4/day | [13] |
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