Impact of external sources of infection on the dynamics of bovine tuberculosis in modelled badger populations

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 1 The parameters originally used in the model

Parameters			Values	References
Disease progression	Male	Latent to Infectious	0.297	[15]
		Infectious to latent	0.149
	Female	Latent to Infectious	0.248
		Infectious to latent	0.539
Colonisation	Adult	Male	0.025	[55]
	Adult	Female	0.025
Dispersal	Adult	Male	0.06	[15, 55]
	Adult	Female	0.02
Fecundity		Coeff A	0.6	[56]
		Coeff B	0.82
Natural mortality (μ)	Adult	Male	0.304	[10, 57]
		Female	0.236
	Yearlings	Male	0.304
		Female	0.236
	Cub	Without Female	0.95
		Min	0.19
		Max	0.85
Disease-induced mortality (α)	Adult and Yearling	Male	0.208	[57]
	Adult and Yearling	Female	0.093
	Cub	Male	0.208
	Cub	Female	0.093
External infection	Probability of external transmission	Summer	0.0001-0.01
Internal infection	Annual intra-group infection transmission		0.175	[25]
	Annual inter-group infection transmission		0.075

The values are probabilities per individual per season. Values used are the same in each season unless stated.

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