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Transmission and population dynamics of HTLV‐1 infection
Author(s) -
Seydel Johannes,
Krämer Alexander
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19960410)66:2<197::aid-ijc10>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - transmission (telecommunications) , population , horizontal transmission , demography , transmission rate , virus , biology , medicine , virology , telecommunications , computer science , sociology
We present a modelling approach for transmission and population dynamics of human T‐cell lymphotropic‐virus‐type‐I (HTLV‐I) infection. A steady‐state analysis of the model was used to estimate transmission rates for males and females. The rate of heterosexual transmission was 2.7 times higher if the carrier was male. A dynamic transmission model was developed and used to study the impact of different intervention measures in the Jamaican population. Interventions concerning horizontal (heterosexual) transmission exceeds the effect of breaking vertical (mother‐to‐child) transmission, although breast feeding also has an important impact on the total number of infected individuals. © 1996 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.