🧪 The Chemostat Environmental Reservoir Model: Bridging Bioreactor Dynamics and Epidemic Outbreaks 📈
🧫 Conceptual Overview Classical epidemiological models often assume that transmission occurs exclusively through direct contact between individuals. For many pathogens, however, the environment plays an active and dynamic role in disease transmission. Examples include enteric viruses such as Norovirus and environmental bacteria such as Vibrio cholerae, where pathogens persist, accumulate, and decay outside the host. … Read more