Info-gap management of public health Policy for TB with HIV-prevalence and epidemiological uncertainty

BMC Public Health

Table 6 State variables—sizes of sub-populations—in the Murray-Salomon basic model, Table One, p.41, in ref. [[18]]

Index	Symbol	Definition	Initial value^a
			HIV Neg	HIV pos	Ref.
1	U	Uninfected	0.9^b	0.2^c	[10]
2	I _F	Infected subject to fast breakdown	0.05–0.1	0.1	[33, 34]
3	I _S	Infected subject to slow breakdown	0.1	0.1	[33, 34]]
4	S _F	Superinfected subject to fast breakdown	0
5	H _S	INH recipient subject to slow breakdown	0.01	0.01–0.03
6–11	$C_{U}^{i, j}$	Untreated cases, of 6 types:	0
		i=1: smear-positive pulmonary
		i=2: smear-negative pulmonary
		i=3: extra-pulmonary
		j=1: fast diagnosis category
		j=2: slow diagnosis category
		i ^⋆=2 if i=1 (eqs.(6) and (7))
		i ^⋆=1 if i=2 (eqs.(6) and (7))
		i ^⋆=0 if i=3 (eqs.(6) and (7))
12–17	$C_{T}^{i, k}$	Treated cases, of 6 types:	0
		i as above
		k=1: good treatment category
		k=2: bad treatment category
18	R _F	Recovered cases subject to fast relapse	0.4 (0.28–0.52)		[33, 34]
19	R _S	Recovered cases subject to slow relapse	0.050 (0.035–0.065)		[33, 34]

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