Research Article
A Model for the Propagation and Control of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Disease in Kenya
Table 1
Baseline parameters used in simulation.
| Parameter | Description | Value | Reference |
| | Transmission coefficient for asymptomatic individuals undergoing treatment | 0.00000126 | Estimated | | Transmission coefficient for symptomatic individuals undergoing treatment | 0.00002 | Estimated | | Transmission coefficient for the asymptomatic infectious individuals | 0.0003 | Estimated | | The rate at which the immunity of recovered wanes | 0.003 | [30] | | Natural death rate | 0.0147 | [31] | | Recruitment rate | 0.021 | [32] | | Progression rate of latent infected to asymptomatic individuals | 0.05 | [33] | | Rate of tuberculosis disease-induced deaths during treatment | 0.065 | [30] | | Progression rate of latent infected to infectious individuals with disease symptoms | 0.1 | [33] | | Transmission rate of pulmonary tuberculosis | 0.15 | [30] | | Rate of screening latently infected individuals | 0.34 | [34] | | Vaccine efficacy | 0.5 | [11] | | Rate of tuberculosis disease-induced deaths | 0.5 | [34] | | Rate of screening asymptomatic infectious individuals | 0.5 | [35] | | The rate at which asymptomatic infectious individuals exhibit symptoms of the disease | 0.6 | [35] | | The rate at which symptomatic individuals are treated | 0.68 | [30] | | The recovery rate of treated symptomatic individuals | 0.75 | [32] | | Vaccination rate | 0.8 | [31] | | The recovery rate of treated asymptomatic infectious individuals | 0.8 | [30] | | The recovery rate of latent treated | 0.85 | [36] |
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