Nested models of multi-host pathogen systems

– with F.B. Agusto, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, and M.C.A. Leite, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida

We are examining the importance of between-level feedbacks (within-host vs. between-host) in a two-host single-pathogen system using the important example of the malaria parasite and its human and mosquito hosts. We are extending this model to other nested multi-host systems, including a virus system with three hosts (West Nile virus).

Recent Paper

Agusto, F.B., M.C.A. Leite, and M.E. Orive. (2019) The transmission dynamics of a within- and between-hosts malaria model. Ecological Complexity 38:31-55, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.02.002