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Table 2 Model parameters

From: Profiling Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission and the resulting disease burden in the five highest tuberculosis burden countries

Parameter

India

Indonesia

China

Philippines

Pakistan

Source

Demographic

 Simulated population size

20,000

 

 Average household size

4.8

4.0

3.1

4.7

6.8

[27]

 Number of schools (/100,000 population)

115

96

37

57

157

[28,29,30,31,32]

 Average number of potential contacts at work*

10–30

Assumption

 Proportion of the adult population engaged in regular work outside of the household (%)

53.8

66.3

68.9

62.3

54.4

[33]

 Proportion contacts which are of high intensity by location, with locations listed as households / schools / workplaces / other locations (%)

46 / 30 / 20 / 10

[10]

Natural history of TB

 Proportion of active TB cases sm+a / sm−b / extra-pc (%)

50 / 25 / 25

62 / 19 / 19

52 / 24 / 24

60 / 20 / 20

44 / 28 / 28

[34, 35]

 Rate of spontaneous clearance (sm+ / closed TBd years−1)*

0.18–0.29 / 0.09–0.24

[18]

 Rate of TB-specific mortality (sm+ / closed TB years−1)*

0.33–0.45 / 0.016–0.036

[18]

 Crude probability of TB transmission during a contact (×10−4)*

38.5 (30.2–44.9)

39.8 (34.1–45.2)

36.1 (32.4–40.2)

39.1 (32.3–47.4)

38.3 (30.8–44.3)

Calibrated

 Relative probability of transmission per contact if low-intensity contacte

0.5

Assumption, tested in sensitivity analysis

Programmatic parameters

 BCG vaccine coverage

Time-variant

Time-variant

Time-variant

Time-variant

Time-variant

[36] Additional file 1: Figure S9

 Case detection rate

Time-variant

Time-variant

Time-variant

Time-variant

Time-variant

[37] Additional file 1: Figure S9

 Time from detection to treatment (days)*

0–14

[38,39,40,41]

 Treatment success rate

Time-variant

Time-variant

Time-variant

Time-variant

Time-variant

[35] Additional file 1: Figure S9

  1. *Parameters included in Latin hypercube sampling; a smear-positive TB; b smear-negative TB; c extrapulmonary TB; d either smear-negative or extrapulmonary TB; e reference: high-intensity contact