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How to cite:
Agusto, F.B.; Atsu, J.; Kwarteng-Adjei, D.; Lamptey-Mills, D.; Osei, S.A. Modeling the Differential Effect of Prescribed Fire on Multi-Vector Tick-Borne Tularemia Disease. Preprints2024, 2024010139. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0139.v3
Agusto, F.B.; Atsu, J.; Kwarteng-Adjei, D.; Lamptey-Mills, D.; Osei, S.A. Modeling the Differential Effect of Prescribed Fire on Multi-Vector Tick-Borne Tularemia Disease. Preprints 2024, 2024010139. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0139.v3
Agusto, F.B.; Atsu, J.; Kwarteng-Adjei, D.; Lamptey-Mills, D.; Osei, S.A. Modeling the Differential Effect of Prescribed Fire on Multi-Vector Tick-Borne Tularemia Disease. Preprints2024, 2024010139. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0139.v3
APA Style
Agusto, F.B., Atsu, J., Kwarteng-Adjei, D., Lamptey-Mills, D., & Osei, S.A. (2024). Modeling the Differential Effect of Prescribed Fire on Multi-Vector Tick-Borne Tularemia Disease. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0139.v3
Chicago/Turabian Style
Agusto, F.B., Daniel Lamptey-Mills and Samuel A. Osei. 2024 "Modeling the Differential Effect of Prescribed Fire on Multi-Vector Tick-Borne Tularemia Disease" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0139.v3
Abstract
Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by {\it Francisella tularensis} bacteria, a gram-negative coccobacillus-shaped bacterium. There are multiple transmission routes of the infection to humans such as consumption of contaminated food or water, handling of infected animals or bites from {\it haematophagous} arthropods (such as ticks, deer flies, or mosquitoes). In this study we focus on transmission via the bites of ticks and developed a deterministic model of ordinary and impulsive differential equations to gain insight in the differential effect of prescribed fire on {\it Demacenta variablis} and {\it Amblyomma americanum} ticks and the prevalence of tularemina. We found that prescribed fire differentially reduce the number of the two ticks with {\it A. americanum} reduced the least compare to {\it D. variablis} subsequently leading to differential increase of tularemia new infected cases in humans and rodents. Our result further indicates that the spatial arrangement of burn against unburn areas may not matter as either arrangement led to fewer ticks and reduction in tularemia transmission when prescribed fire was implemented. The results of this study provide important new understandings of the intricate effect of prescribed fire on tick species, and the dynamics of the tick-borne disease, tularemia disease in this study.
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Commenter: Folashade B. Agusto
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author