The effect of screening on the health burden of chlamydia: An evaluation of compartmental models based on person-days of infection
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Published:2023
Issue:9
Volume:20
Page:16131-16147
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ISSN:1551-0018
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Container-title:Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
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language:
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Short-container-title:MBE
Author:
Farrell Jack,Spolyar Owen,Greenhalgh Scott
Abstract
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<p>Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are detrimental to the health and economic well-being of society. Consequently, predicting outbreaks and identifying effective disease interventions through epidemiological tools, such as compartmental models, is of the utmost importance. Unfortunately, the ordinary differential equation compartmental models attributed to the work of Kermack and McKendrick require a duration of infection that follows the exponential or Erlang distribution, despite the biological invalidity of such assumptions. As these assumptions negatively impact the quality of predictions, alternative approaches are required that capture how the variability in the duration of infection affects the trajectory of disease and the evaluation of disease interventions. So, we apply a new family of ordinary differential equation compartmental models based on the quantity <italic>person-days of infection</italic> to predict the trajectory of disease. Importantly, this new family of models features non-exponential and non-Erlang duration of infection distributions without requiring more complex integral and integrodifferential equation compartmental model formulations. As proof of concept, we calibrate our model to recent trends of chlamydia incidence in the U.S. and utilize a novel duration of infection distribution that features periodic hazard rates. We then evaluate how increasing STD screening rates alter predictions of incidence and disability adjusted life-years over a five-year horizon. Our findings illustrate that our family of compartmental models provides a better fit to chlamydia incidence trends than traditional compartmental models, based on Akaike information criterion. They also show new asymptomatic and symptomatic infections of chlamydia peak over drastically different time frames and that increasing the annual STD screening rates from 35% to 40%-70% would annually avert 6.1-40.3 incidence while saving 1.68-11.14 disability adjusted life-years per 1000 people. This suggests increasing the STD screening rate in the U.S. would greatly aid in ongoing public health efforts to curtail the rising trends in preventable STDs.</p>
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Publisher
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Computational Mathematics,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,Modeling and Simulation,General Medicine
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