A metapopulation model of tuberculosis transmission with a case study from high to low burden areas

Roslyn I. Hickson; Geoffry N. Mercer; Kamalini M. Lokuge

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A metapopulation model of tuberculosis transmission with a case study from high to low burden areas

Roslyn I. Hickson, Geoffry N. Mercer, Kamalini M. Lokuge

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Tuberculosis (TB) is a growing problem worldwide, especially with the emergence and high prevalence of multidrug-resistant strains. We develop a metapopulation model for TB spread, which is particularly suited to investigating transmission between areas of high and low prevalence. A case study of cross-border transmission in the Torres Strait region of Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) is considered and a sensitivity analysis is conducted. We find that only 6 of the 50 parameters analysed are important to the cumulative number of clinically active TB patients in the entire region. Of these, only the detection rate in PNG is found to be an important intervention parameter. We therefore give insight into the extent the area with the high burden of TB (PNG in the case study) is dominating the TB dynamics of the entire region. Furthermore, the sensitivity analysis results give insight into the data that most important to collect and refine, which is found to be data relating to the PNG parameters.

Original language	English
Article number	e34411
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034411
Publication status	Published - 4 Apr 2012

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