Cite this article as: Pauline Ezanno and Matthieu Lesnoff, A metapopulation model for the spread and persistence of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in african sedentary mixed crop-livestock systems, Journal of Theoretical Biology (2008Biology ( ), doi:10.1016Biology ( /j.jtbi.2008 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. A sensitivity analysis is performed to evaluate the influence on model outputs of these 27 parameters and of pathogen virulence, between-herd movement rate, network degree, 28 and calves recruitment. Model outputs are the probability that individual-and group-29 level reproductive numbers R 0 and R * are above one, the metapopulation infection 30 duration, the probability of CBPP endemicity (when CBPP persists over five years), and 31 the epidemic size in infected herds and infected animals. The most influential 32 parameters are related to chronic carriers (infectiousness and chronic period), pathogen 33 virulence, and recruitment rate. When assuming no CBPP re-introduction in the region, 34 endemicity is only probable if chronic carriers are assumed infectious for at least one 35 year and to shed the pathogen in not too low an amount. It becomes highly probable 36 when assuming high pathogen virulence and high recruitment rate. 37 38