A system to evaluate the presence of a diarrheal epidemic caused by Shigella and Salmonella

Author

Chaturvedi, Ojaswita ; Masupe, Shedden ; Masupe, Tiny

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana

fYear

2014

fDate

1-4 June 2014

Firstpage

392

Lastpage

395

Abstract

Epidemic modeling of a disease like diarrhea help in understanding the dynamics of the disease as well as preventing it. According to the pathogenesis, models for Shigella and Salmonella have been formulated and the basic reproduction number (R₀) has been evaluated. These models have been built up into a user-friendly graphical user interface that displays the presence and effects of the epidemic. It was established that as long as R₀<;1, there will be no epidemic. The outputs from the system are very clear and help in determining the extent and existence of the epidemic.

Keywords

diseases; epidemics; graphical user interfaces; medical computing; microorganisms; R0; Salmonella model; Shigella model; basic reproduction number; diarrheal epidemic; disease dynamics; epidemic effects; epidemic existence; epidemic extent; epidemic modeling; epidemic presence; graphical user interface; pathogenesis; Computational modeling; Mathematical model; Microorganisms; Pathogens; Sociology; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BHI.2014.6864385

Filename

6864385