Modelling Immunity Against Infectious Plague Bacteria in Great Gerbils in Kazakhstan: a Continuous-time Markov Chain Approach

Siyun Park, Kung-Sik Chan, Hildegunn Viljugrein, Larissa Nekrassova, Bakhtiyar Suleimenov, Vladimir S. Ageyev, Nikolay L. Klassovskiy, Sergey B. Pole and Nils Chr. Stenseth 1 Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, U.S.A. 2 Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biology, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1050 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway M. Aikimbaev’s Kazakh Scientic Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases, 14 Kapalskaya Street, Almaty 480074, Republic of Kazakhstan.