A population model for the 2017/18 listeriosis outbreak in South Africa.

We introduce a compartmental model of ordinary differential equations for the population dynamics of listeriosis, and we derive a model for analysing a listeriosis outbreak. The model explicitly accommodates neonatal infections. Similarly as is common in cholera modeling, we include a compartment to...

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Main Authors: Peter Joseph Witbooi, Charlene Africa, Alan Christoffels, Ibrahim Hussin Ibrahim Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229901