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Threshold and stability results in a periodic model for malaria transmission with partial immunity in humans

Mahmoud A. Ibrahim and Attila Dénes

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2021, vol. 392, issue C

Abstract: We develop a periodic compartmental population model for the spread of malaria, dividing the human population into two classes: non-immune and semi-immune. The effect of seasonal changes in weather on the malaria transmission is considered by applying a non-autonomous model where mosquito birth, death and biting rates are time-dependent. We show that the global dynamics of the system is determined by the basic reproduction number, which we define as the spectral radius of a linear integral operator. For values of the basic reproduction number less than unity, the disease-free periodic solution is globally asymptotically stable, while if R0>1, then the disease remains endemic in the population. We show simulations in accordance with the analytic results. Finally, we show that the time-average reproduction rate gives an underestimation for malaria transmission risk.

Keywords: Periodic epidemic model; Malaria transmission; Partial immunity; Basic reproduction number; Global stability; Uniform persistence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2020.125711

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