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This implements a delay differential equation model for adult mosquito ecology and infection dynamics that is consistent with the model published by George Macdonald in 1952. A generalized version of this model, the MYZ module GeRM, was developed to handle exogenous forcing by weather and vector control. This model should be used only for educational purposes.

Variables:

  • M: the density of adult mosquitoes

  • Y: the density of infected adult mosquitoes

  • Z: the density of infectious adult mosquitoes

Parameters and Terms:

  • Λ or Lambda: the emergence rate of adult mosquitoes (from F_emerge)

  • f or f: the blood feeding rate

  • q or q: maturation rate

  • τ or eip: the extrinsic incubation period

  • Ω or Omega: an adult mosquito demographic matrix, including mortality and migration

  • Υ or Upsilon: survival and dispersal through the eip, Υ=eΩτ

Dynamics: In the delay equation, we use the subscript to denote the lagged value of a variable or term: e.g., Mτ=M(tτ).

dM/dt=ΛΩMdY/dt=fqκ(MY)ΩYdZ/dt=Υ(fqκ)τ(MτYτ)ΩY

This model was included mainly for the historical interest. It has been updated to handle exogenous forcing by weather and vector control in the module GeRM

Usage

# S3 method for class 'macdonald'
dMYZdt(t, y, pars, s)

Arguments

t

current simulation time

y

state vector

pars

an xds object

s

the species index

Value

a numeric vector

Note

This model is not capable of being extended to handle exogenous forcing by weather or vector control. Please use the GeRM model.