A story of viral co-infection, co-transmission and co-feeding in ticks: how to compute an invasion reproduction number

1 code implementation • 22 Mar 2024 • Giulia Belluccini, Qianying Lin, Bevelynn Williams, Yijun Lou, Zati Vatansever, Martín López-García, Grant Lythe, Thomas Leitner, Ethan Romero-Severson, Carmen Molina-París

We show that a simple model, with two populations of ticks infected with one strain, resident or invasive, and one population of co-infected ticks, does not have Alizon's neutrality property.