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Preliminary Analysis Of An Agent-Based Model For A Tick-Borne Disease, Holly Gaff
Preliminary Analysis Of An Agent-Based Model For A Tick-Borne Disease, Holly Gaff
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Ticks have a unique life history including a distinct set of life stages and a single blood meal per life stage. This makes tick-host interactions more complex from a mathematical perspective. In addition, any model of these interactions must involve a significant degree of stochasticity on the individual tick level. In an attempt to quantify these relationships, I have developed an individual-based model of the interactions between ticks and their hosts as well as the transmission of tick-borne disease between the two populations. The results from this model are compared with those from previously published differential equation based population models. …