Study of the dispersion of the chagas disease through cellular automata
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Chagas disease has become a public health problem throughout Latin America. The reason is the scarce knowledge of the human-vector-reservoir dynamics, influenced by climate change and alternate routes of contagion (transfusional, oral, congenital and probably sexual). Therefore, a thorough study of this
dynamic would provide relevant information to formulate proposals aimed at a definitive control of vectors and reservoirs. For this purpose, the study of this dynamics by Systems of Partial Differential Equations has not delivered a plausible proposal that fully complies with this objective, due to the same complexity of the dynamics. That is why Cellular Automata simulation technique is proposed to the scientific community, which is able to incorporate in a simple way the details of the dynamics and promises to give definitive lights for its understanding.
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