Mathematical modelling and control of echinococcus in Qinghai province, China
| Autor: | Baojun Song, Liumei Wu, Jie Lou, Wen Du |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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China
Endemic Diseases Risk Assessment Quantitative Biology::Other Disease Outbreaks Echinococcosis Econometrics Humans Quantitative Biology::Populations and Evolution Computer Simulation Control (linguistics) Bifurcation Proportional Hazards Models Mathematics Models Statistical biology Mathematical model Incidence Applied Mathematics Baseline model General Medicine biology.organism_classification Computational Mathematics Echinococcus Modeling and Simulation General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Basic reproduction number |
| Zdroj: | Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering. 10:425-444 |
| ISSN: | 1551-0018 |
| DOI: | 10.3934/mbe.2013.10.425 |
| Popis: | In this paper, two mathematical models, the baseline model and the intervention model, are proposed to study the transmission dynamics of echinococcus. A global forward bifurcation completely characterizes the dynamical behavior of the baseline model. That is, when the basic reproductive number is less than one, the disease-free equilibrium is asymptotically globally stable; when the number is greater than one, the endemic equilibrium is asymptotically globally stable. For the intervention model, however, the basic reproduction number alone is not enough to describe the dynamics, particularly for the case where the basic reproductive number is less then one. The emergence of a backward bifurcation enriches the dynamical behavior of the model. Applying these mathematical models to Qinghai Province, China, we found that the infection of echinococcus is in an endemic state. Furthermore, the model appears to be supportive of human interventions in order to change the landscape of echinococcus infection in this region. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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