Congratulations to former mathepilab member Elissa Giang!

Elissa’s research from her master’s thesis has been published in Pathogens! Elissa developed a mathematical model to assess the effects of changes in host recruitment rate on Streptococcus suis incidence. The results show that monthly introduction of pigs into the nursery (instead of weekly introduction) reduced cumulative cases of S. suis by up to 59%, while increasing disease-removal rates alone averted up to 64% of cases. These findings suggest that modifications to host recruitment rates could be leveraged as a tool for S. suis disease control. Well done Elissa!