Antibiotics, duration of infectiousness, and transmission of disease
Humans, domestic animals, orchard crops, and ornamental plants are commonly treated with antibiotics in response to bacterial infection. By curing infectious individuals, antibiotic therapy might limit the spread of contagious disease among hosts. But antibiotic suppression of within-host pathogen density might also reduce the probability that the host is otherwise removed from infectious status before recovery. When rates of both recovery and removal (isolation or mortality) depend directly on within-host density, antibiotic therapy can relax the removal rate and so increase between-host disease transmission. In this paper a deterministic within-host dynamics drives the infectious host's probability of infection transmission, as well as the host's time-dependent probability of surviving to recovery. The model varies (1) inoculum size, (2) the time elapsing between infection and initiation of therapy, (2) antibiotic efficacy, and (3) the size/susceptibility of groups encountered by an infectious host. Results identify conditions where antibiotic treatment simultaneously increases host survival and increases the expected number of new infections. That is, antibiotics might convert a rare, serious bacterial disease into a common, but treatable infection.
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