The Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered Model to Understand Multipartite Viruses (IMAGE)

Tokyo Institute of Technology

The Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered Model to Understand Multipartite Viruses

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Many infectious diseases are modeled by the Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered model. In this model, when a susceptible individual (someone who don't have the disease) meets an infectious individual (someone who have the disease and can spread it), the susceptible can become infectious. After some time the infectious can become recovered (someone who don't have the disease and can't get it). This model has to be modified so that the infection step (when susceptible becomes infectious) describes the accumulation of virus particles until the individual has a complete viral genome.

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