Special Session 15: Recent Advances on Population Models in Ecology and Epidemiology

Multiscale models for cholera dynamics

Jin Wang
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
USA
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Abstract:
We present a few multiscale modeling studies for cholera, a severe waterborne infection. The models couple the disease transmission and spread at the population level with the pathogen-host interaction inside the human body. We discuss unidirectional and bidirectional links that bridge the two scales. We investigate the mutual impacts of the within-host and between-host dynamics through both mathematical analysis and numerical simulation.