Model-based inference from multiple dose, time course data reveals Wolbachia effects on infection profiles of type 1 dengue virus in Aedes aegypti
Souto-Maior, Caetano and Sylvestre, Gabriel and Braga Stehling Dias, Fernando and Gomes, M. Gabriela M. and Maciel-de-Freitas, Rafael (2018) Model-based inference from multiple dose, time course data reveals Wolbachia effects on infection profiles of type 1 dengue virus in Aedes aegypti. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12 (3). e0006339. ISSN 1935-2727 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006339)
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Abstract
Infection is a complex and dynamic process involving a population of invading microbes, the host and its responses, aimed at controlling the situation. Depending on the purpose and level of organization, infection at the organism level can be described by a process as simple as a coin toss, or as complex as a multi-factorial dynamic model; the former, for instance, may be adequate as a component of a population model, while the latter is necessary for a thorough description of the process beginning with a challenge with an infectious inoculum up to establishment or elimination of the pathogen. Experimental readouts in the laboratory are often static, snapshots of the process, assayed under some convenient experimental condition, and therefore cannot comprehensively describe the system. Different from the discrete treatment of infection in population models, or the descriptive summarized accounts of typical lab experiments, in this manuscript, infection is treated as a dynamic process dependent on the initial conditions of the infectious challenge, viral growth, and the host response along time. Here, experimental data is generated for multiple doses of type 1 dengue virus, and pathogen levels are recorded at different points in time for two populations of mosquitoes: either carrying endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia or not. A dynamic microbe/host-response mathematical model is used to describe pathogen growth in the face of a host response like the immune system, and to infer model parameters for the two populations of insects, revealing a slight—but potentially important—protection conferred by the symbiont.
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Item type: Article ID code: 72782 Dates: DateEvent20 March 2018Published23 February 2018AcceptedSubjects: Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Social Sciences > StatisticsDepartment: Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 17 Jun 2020 10:37 Last modified: 20 Sep 2024 00:40 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/72782