A deterministic Taenia solium and Cysticercosis dynamic model

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Overview

A deterministic, compartmental model of the Cysticercosis disease system.

For full model details please see: Winskill, P., Harrison, W.E., French, M. D., Dixon, M., Abela-Ridder, B. & Basáñez, M.-G. (2017) Assessing the impact of intervention strategies against Taenia solium cysticercosis using the epicyst transmission model. Parasites & Vectors, 10:73, DOI: 10.1186/s13071-017-1988-9

Other publications include:

Dixon MA, Braae UC, Winskill P, Walker M, Devleesschauwer B, Gabriël S, et al. Strategies for tackling Taenia solium taeniosis/ cysticercosis: A systematic review and comparison of transmission models, including an assessment of the wider Taeniidae family transmission models. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019;13(4):1–24

Dixon MA, Winskill P, Harrison WE, Whittaker C, Schmidt V, Sarti E, et al. Force ‑ of ‑ infection of Taenia solium porcine cysticercosis: a modelling analysis to assess global incidence and prevalence trends. Sci Rep. 2020;1–14

Dixon MA, Braae UC, Winskill P, Devleesschauwer B, Trevisan C, Van Damme I, et al. Modelling for Taenia solium control strategies beyond 2020. Bull World Health Organ. 2020;98(3):198–205

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Installation

To use the package, please install package devtools and install epicyst: remotes::install_github("mrc-ide/epicyst")

You will need an appropriate compiler installed.

The package ODEs are all driven by the odin package

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Use

For a detailed practical guide please see the epicyst introduction vignette

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Details on the model functionality and use can be found on the epicyst Webpage
Source code is available from the epicyst Github
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