Chemostats and epidemics: Competition for nutrients/hosts
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Chemostats and epidemics: competition for nutrients/hosts.
In a chemostat, several species compete for the same nutrient, while in an epidemic, several strains of the same pathogen may compete for the same susceptible hosts. As winner, chemostat models predict the species with the lowest break-even concentration, while epidemic models predict the strain with the largest basic reproduction number. We show that these predictions amount to the same if the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1551-0018
DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2013.10.1635