Abstract:In this paper we propose the balanced implicit numerical techniques for maintaining the nonnegative path of the solution in stochastic susceptible-infected-vaccinated-susceptible (SIVS) epidemic model. We can hardly acquire the explicit solution for the SIVS model, so we often use the numerical scheme to produce approximate solutions. The Euler-Maruyama (EM) method is a useful and effective means in producing numerical solutions of SIVS model. The EM method to simulate the stochastic SIVS model often results i… Show more
“…Some of them introduce vaccination as a control or strategy on a selected model [14][15][16] but most of the studies rely on models including additional compartments for vaccinated individuals. [17][18][19][20] Models are flexible enough to match vaccine characteristics, such as efficacy, 21,22 life-long or waning protection, 23,24 eligibility, 25 number of doses, 26 vaccine uptake, 27 and so forth.…”
“…Some of them introduce vaccination as a control or strategy on a selected model [14][15][16] but most of the studies rely on models including additional compartments for vaccinated individuals. [17][18][19][20] Models are flexible enough to match vaccine characteristics, such as efficacy, 21,22 life-long or waning protection, 23,24 eligibility, 25 number of doses, 26 vaccine uptake, 27 and so forth.…”
An additional compartment of vaccinated individuals is considered in a SIS stochastic epidemic model with infection reintroduction. The quantification of the spread of the disease is modeled by a continuous time Markov chain. A well-known measure of the initial transmission potential is the basic reproduction number R 0 , which determines the herd immunity threshold or the critical proportion of immune individuals required to stop the spread of a disease when a vaccine offers a complete protection. Due to repeated contacts between the typical infective and previously infected individuals, R 0 overestimates the average number of secondary infections and leads to, perhaps unnecessary, high immunization coverage. Assuming that the vaccine is imperfect, alternative measures to R 0 are defined in order to study the influence of the initial coverage and vaccine efficacy on the transmission of the epidemic.
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