Estimation of parameters in a closed pygmy population in Cameroon

Yannick Tchaptchie Kouakep
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Yannick Tchaptchie Kouakep: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ngaoundéré University, Cameroon

Biostatistics and Biometrics Open Access Journal, 2018, vol. 8, issue 1, 17-21

Abstract: Inspired by a manuscript of (kouakep, arxiv.org/abs/1505.06431, 2016), we considered in this note a wellposed model with deferential susceptibility and infectivity adding continuous age structure to an ODE model for a “Baka†pygmy group in the East of Cameroon (Africa). Assuming a very low contribution of carriers to infection compare to acute infectious, we estimate a probability p(a) (to develop symptomatic Hepatitis B state at age a) and acute carriers’ transmission rate. The value R0 = 2:67 >1 of the basic reproduction number estimated from data in the east of Cameroon confirms that HBV is endemic in the Baka pygmy group.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/BBOAJ.2018.08.555730

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