A new zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis dynamic transmission model with age-structure

Kaiming Bi, Yuyang Chen, Songnian Zhao, David Ben-Arieh and (John) Wu, Chih-Hang

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020, vol. 133, issue C

Abstract: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a fatal, neglected tropical disease primarily caused by Leishmania donovani (L. donovani) and Leishmania infantum (L. infantum). According to VL infectious data reports from severely affected countries, children and teenagers (ages 0–20) have a significantly higher vulnerability to VL infection than other populations. This paper utilizes an infected function (by age) established from epidemic prevalence data to propose a new partial differential equation (PDE) model for infection transmission patterns for various age groups. This new PDE model can be used to study VL epidemics in time and age dimensions. Disease-free and endemic equilibriums are discussed in relation to theoretical stability of the PDE system. This paper also proposes system output adjustment using historical VL data from the World Health Organization. Statistical methods such as the moving average and the autoregressive methods are used to calibrate estimated prevalence trends, potentially minimizing differences between stochastic stimulation results and reported real-world data. Results from simulation experiments using the PDE model were used to predict the worldwide VL severity of the epidemic in the next four years (from 2017 to 2020).

Keywords: Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis; Dynamic transmission; Age structure; Partial differential equation; Epidemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2020.109622

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