Net Blood Feeding by Infectious Mosquitoes - SI Mosquito Model

The variable $Y$ is the density of infected mosquitoes. The model blood feeding parameters are:

• $f$ is the overall blood feeding rate

• $q$ is the human fraction for blood feeding

• $\mathrm{\Omega }$ is the demographic matrix

• $\tau$ is the EIP

The net blood feeding rate by infectious mosquitoes is computed by accounting for survival and dispersal that would occur in a delay differential equation: $$\mathrm{{\rm Y}}=e^{-\mathrm{\Omega }\tau }$$ so $$fqZ=fq(\mathrm{{\rm Y}}\cdot Y)$$ The daily EIR for the population strata is $\beta \cdot fqZ$