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A parasite vector-host epidemic model for TSE propagation

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Date
2007
Dewey
Modèles mathématiques. Algorithmes
Sujet
Disease Outbreaks; Prion Diseases - veterinary; Parasites - physiology; Models; Biological; Host-Parasite Interactions; Great Britain - epidemiology; Disease Vectors; Animals; Cattle; Time Factors
Journal issue
Medical Science Monitor
Volume
13
Number
3
Publication date
2007
Article pages
59-66
Publisher
ISI
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/13398
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Author
Ng, Tuen-Wai
Turinici, Gabriel
Ching, Wai-Ki
Chung, Si-Kit
Danchin, Antoine
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
Background: Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a family of diseases that infect mammals. They are explained by cross-contamination through an unknown route or from infection of food contaminated with prion proteins (PrPs), natural proteins that take an infectious form contributing to the slow destruction of the animal brain. While the extreme resistance of PrPs to denaturation and proteolysis accounts for a route from the mouth to the brain, the possible role of another route of contamination is explored here. Many diseases are spread by vectors, as seen in plague, typhus, malaria, or dengue. The situation where PrPs would be transmitted by a vector and, from the characteristics of outbreaks, proposed hypotheses about the biological nature of such vectors are explored. Material/Methods: The nontrivial situation where contamination by the vector prevents infection by making the host immune to further vector contamination was analyzed. To investigate the nature of a possible vector, the spread of a disease in a closed population of hosts and vectors where the number of hosts is constant and the vectors multiply in the host was modeled mathematically. In this model, the disease is caused by an infective agent and is spread by a vector, while direct host-to-host spread is not permitted. Results: Concrete values of the parameters of the model were computed from simulation of the BSE outbreak in the UK as a possible example of the process. Conclusions: Microbial vector-borne diseases might play an unexpected role in the spread of epidemics, warranting further exploration.

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