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This study presents a deterministic model to investigate rabies transmission dynamics, incorporating environmental effects and control strategies using optimal control theory. Qualitative and quantitative analyses reveal that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Mfano Charles , Sayoki G. Mfinanga , G. A. Lyakurwa , Delfim F. M. Torres , Verdiana G. Masanja

Malaria is a life threatening disease, entirely preventable and treatable, provided the currently recommended interventions are properly implemented. These interventions include vector control through the use of insecticide-treated nets…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-01 Cristiana J. Silva , Delfim F. M. Torres

A deterministic nonlinear ordinary differential equation model for mosquito dynamics in which the mosquitoes can quest for blood either within a human population or within non-human/vertebrate populations is derived and studied. The model…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-10 Gideon A. Ngwa , Bime M. Ghakanyuy , Miranda I. Teboh-Ewungkem , Jacek Banasiak

Malaria is a mosquito-borne, lethal disease that affects millions and kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. In this paper, we develop a model for allocating malaria interventions across geographic regions and time, subject to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-28 Harry J. Dudley , Abhishek Goenka , Cesar J. Orellana , Susan E. Martonosi

Malaria remains a major public health concern in Ethiopia, particularly in the Amhara Region, where seasonal and unpredictable transmission patterns make prevention and control challenging. Accurately forecasting malaria outbreaks is…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-03 Kassahun Azezew , Amsalu Tesema , Bitew Mekuria , Ayenew Kassie , Animut Embiale , Ayodeji Olalekan Salau , Tsega Asresa

In this paper, a novel West Nile Virus model looking upon the infected birds as monitoring threshold, for the mosquitoes and birds with impulsive state feedback control is considered. We obtain sufficient conditions of the global…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Lin-Fei Nie , Jing-Yun Shen

One of the main causes of death around the globe is malaria. Researchers have sought to develop predictive models for malaria outbreaks based on meteorological data, climate data and the breeding cycle of Plasmodium, the causative agent of…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-20 Mary Opokua Ansong , Asare Yaw Obeng , Samuel King Opoku

To investigate the combined effects of drug resistance, seasonality and vector-bias, we formulate a periodic two-strain reaction-diffusion model. It is a competitive system for resistant and sensitive strains, but the single-strain…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Huijie Chu , Zhenguo Bai

The resurgence of vector-borne diseases is an increasing public health concern, and there is a need for a better understanding of their dynamics. For a number of diseases, e.g. dengue and chikungunya, this resurgence occurs mostly in urban…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-14 Abderrahman Iggidr , Gauthier Sallet , Max O. Souza

Malaria is one of the most common mosquito-borne diseases widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, causing thousands of deaths every year in the world. In a previous paper, we formulated an age-structured model containing three…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-24 Quentin Richard , Marc Choisy , Ramsès Djidjou-Demasse , Thierry Lefèvre

The sterile insect technique controls mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, and yellow fever through either eradication or depressing the associated vector population. We formulate a three-dimensional delayed mosquito population…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Ruqaya Hussein , Sergey Kryzhevich , Khosro Tajbakhsh

Extrinsic environmental factors influence the distribution and population dynamics of many organisms, including insects that are of concern for human health and agriculture. This is particularly true for vector-borne infectious diseases,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-31 Leah R. Johnson , Tal Ben-Horin , Kevin D. Lafferty , Amy McNally , Erin Mordecai , Krijn P. Paaijmans , Samraat Pawar , Sadie J. Ryan

A model with six mutually-exclusive compartments related to dengue is studied. Three vector control tools are considered: insecticides (larvicide and adulticide) and mechanical control. The basic reproduction number associated to the model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Helena Sofia Rodrigues , M. Teresa T. Monteiro , Delfim F. M. Torres

It is preliminarily known that Aedes mosquitoes are very close to humans and their dwellings, also give rises to a broad spectrum of diseases: dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya. In this paper, we explore a multi-age-class model for mosquito…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Karunia Putra Wijaya , Thomas Goetz , Edy Soewono

This paper examines an epidemic patch model with mass-action transmission mechanism and asymmetric connectivity matrix. Results on the global dynamics of solutions and the spatial structures of endemic solutions are obtained. In particular,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Rachidi Salako , Yixiang Wu

We present an application of optimal control theory to Dengue epidemics. This epidemiologic disease is an important theme in tropical countries due to the growing number of infected individuals. The dynamic model is described by a set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-27 Helena Sofia Rodrigues , M. Teresa T. Monteiro , Delfim F. M. Torres

This paper investigates the deterministic extinction and permanence of a family of SEIRS malaria models with multiple random delays, and with a general nonlinear incidence rate. The conditions for the extinction and permanence of the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-05 Divine Wanduku , Broderick Oluyede

This paper proposes and analyzes a malaria transmission model structured by the chronological age of the human host population. The model couples an age-structured SIRS system for humans, incorporating waning immunity, with an SI system for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Seraphin Djaoue , Quentin Richard , Antoine Perasso , Irépran Damakoa

Transmission dynamics of infectious diseases are often studied using compartmental mathematical models, which are commonly represented as systems of autonomous ordinary differential equations. A key step in the analysis of such models is to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-15 David J. D. Earn , C. Connell McCluskey

The epidemiological behavior of Plasmodium vivax malaria occurs across spatial scales including within-host, population, and metapopulation levels. On the within-host scale, P. vivax sporozoites inoculated in a host may form latent…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-12 Shoshana Elgart , Mark B. Flegg , Somya Mehra , Jennifer A. Flegg