Speaker:
Suzanne Lenhart
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Institution:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Time:
Monday, March 2, 2015 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Location:
RH306
Johne's disease in dairy cattle is a chronic infectious disease in the intestines caused by the baciili, Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis. We have modeled this disease with several approaches to illustrate different features. A system of difference equations represented an epidemiological situation in dairy farm to compare the effects of two types of diagnostic tests. Then an agent-based model at the farm level was developed to see the effects of stochasticity, Lastly, a PDE/ODE model illustrated a novel way to link a within-host model with an epidemiological model.