Pathogen Exclusion from Eco‐Epidemiological Systems

Pathogen exclusion from eco-epidemiological systems.

Increasing concerns about the changing environment and the emergence of pathogens that cross species boundaries have added to the urgency of understanding the dynamics of complex ecological systems infected by pathogens. Of particular interest is the often counterintuitive way in which infection and predation interact and the consequent difficulties in designing control strategies to manage the...

Host-pathogen systems biology.

Unlike traditional biological research that focuses on a small set of components, systems biology studies the complex interactions between a large number of genes, proteins and other elements of biological networks and systems. Host-pathogen systems biology examines the interactions between the components of two distinct organisms, either a microbial or viral pathogen and its animal host or two...

Analysis of an Ecoepidemiological Model with Prey Refuges

Coexistence in host-pathogen systems

Lanchier and Neuhauser have initiated the study of host-symbiont systems but have concentrated on the case in which the birth rates for unassociated hosts are equal. Here we allow the birth rates to be different and identify cases in which a host with a specialist pathogen can coexist with a second species. Our calculations suggest that it is possible for two hosts with specialist pathogens to ...

Exclusion rule-based systems - case study

The exclusion rule-based system, proposed in the paper, is an alternative method of designing a rule-based system for an expert or a control system. The starting point of the approach is the set of all possible decisions the considered system can generate. Then, on the basis of the exclusion rules, the set of decisions is limited to the ones permissible in the current state. A railway traffic m...