“…However, to the best of our knowledge, no existing work has attempted to address the coupled within-and between-host dynamics of cholera (a severe water-borne gastroenteric disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae), despite the fact that a large body of work has been devoted to its population level modelling (e.g. [4][5][6]17,21,22,26,28,29,[32][33][34][35][36]). It is also worth mentioning that some of these between-host models have incorporated both human and environmental transmission pathways with nonlinear disease incidence functions (see, e.g.…”