TY - JOUR AU - Ferguson, Morgan AU - Arangala, Christa AU - Yokley, Karen AU - Rave, Michelle PY - 2021/06/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Agent Based Simulation of Dengue with Wolbachia Intervention JF - Minnesota Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics JA - mjum VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/mjum/article/view/4231 SP - AB - <p>Dengue fever is primarily an urban disease of the tropics and is caused by one of four virus serotypes (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4). Symptoms of the virus include high fever, muscle and joint pain, and rash. Since dengue is a mosquito-borne virus transmitted by the&nbsp;<em>Aedes aegypti</em>&nbsp;mosquito, the spread of the disease can be modeled by both agent-based models and equation-based models. The purpose of this study is to compare an agent-based model built in Netlogo against a more traditional equation-based model. In addition, the emerging preventative measure of injecting mosquitoes with the&nbsp;<em>Wolbachia</em>&nbsp;bacterium is incorporated into each model and further explored. Multiple&nbsp;<em>Wolbachia</em>&nbsp;release strategies are presented.</p> ER -