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Mathematical formulation and validation of the Be-FAST model for Classical Swine Fever Virus spread between and within farms

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Classical Swine Fever is a viral disease of pigs that causes severe restrictions on the movement of pigs and pig products in the affected areas. The knowledge of its spread patterns and risk factors would help to implement specific measures for controlling future outbreaks. In this article, we describe in detail a spatial hybrid model, called Be-FAST, based on the combination of a stochastic Individual-Based model (modeling the interactions between the farms, considered as individuals) for between-farm spread with a Susceptible-Infected model for within-farm spread, to simulate the spread of this disease and identify risk zones in a given region. First, we focus on the mathematical formulation of each component of the model. Then, in order to validate Be-FAST, we perform various numerical experiments considering the Spanish province of Segovia. Obtained results are compared with the ones given by two other Individual-Based models and real outbreaks data from Segovia and The Netherlands.

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  1. The value of the parameters used by Be-FAST should be set in function of the studied region (for example, due to the specific legislations). For instance, the parameters values considered during this work are adapted for their application to the province of Segovia (see Sect. 4). In particular the parameters referenced by J.C.L. (2008) or M.A.P.A. (2006) in Table 2 have been obtained by expert opinions of the Spanish administration. The reliability of those parameters is discussed in Martínez-López et al. (2012).

  2. This control measure is adapted for studying CSFV spread in the province of Segovia (see Sect. 4). For larger areas (e.g., a country), the movement restrictions should be limited to a part of the studied region.

  3. This reduced region has been already used to illustrate, with success, the behavior of our model in Martínez-López (2011, 2012) and, thus, is also applied here to validate our model. However, this region could be replaced by any larger region when the required databases are available.

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Acknowledgements

This work was carried out thanks to the financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under projects MTM2008-04621 and MTM2011-22658; the project CONS-C6-0356 of the I-MATH Proyecto Ingenio Mathematica; the Research Group MOMAT supported by the “Banco Santander” and the “Universidad Complutense de Madrid” (Ref. 910480); and the “Comunidad de Madrid” and “European Social Fund” through project S2009/PPQ-1551. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Olga Minguez, her team, the Regional Government of Castilla and Leon Region and the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs for providing us data and technical assistance. A.M. Ramos has also been Funded by Fundación Caja Madrid.

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Ivorra, B., Martínez-López, B., Sánchez-Vizcaíno, J.M. et al. Mathematical formulation and validation of the Be-FAST model for Classical Swine Fever Virus spread between and within farms. Ann Oper Res 219, 25–47 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-012-1257-4

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