Non-fractional and fractional mathematical analysis and simulations for Q fever

Joshua Kiddy K. Asamoah, Eric Okyere, Ernest Yankson, Alex Akwasi Opoku, Agnes Adom-Konadu, Edward Acheampong and Yarhands Dissou Arthur

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022, vol. 156, issue C

Abstract: The purpose of analysing the transmission dynamism of Q fever (Coxiellosis) in livestock and incorporating ticks is to outline some management practices to minimise the spread of the disease in livestock. Ticks pass coxiellosis from an infected to a susceptible animal through a bite. The faecal matter can also contain coxiellosis, thus contaminating the environment and spreading the disease. First, a nonlinear integer order mathematical model is developed to represent the spread of this infectious disease in livestock. The proposed integer model investigates the positivity and boundedness, disease equilibria, basic reproduction number, bifurcation, and sensitivity analysis. Through mathematical analysis and numerical simulations, it shows that if the environmental transmission and the effective shedding rate of coxiella burnetii into the environment by both asymptomatic and symptomatic livestock are zero, then the usual threshold hold and it produces forward bifurcation. It is noticed that an increase in the recruitment rate of ticks produces backward bifurcation. And also, it is seen that an increase in the natural decay rate of the bacterial in the environment reduces the backward bifurcation point. Furthermore, to take care of the memory aspect of ticks on their host, we modified the initially proposed integer order model by introducing Caputo, Caputo-Fabrizio, Atangana-Baleanu fractional differential operators. The existence and uniqueness of these three newly developed fractional-order differential models are shown using the Banach fixed point theorem. Numerical trajectories are obtained for each of the fractional-order mathematical models. The trajectory of some fractional orders converges to the same endemic equilibrium point as the integer order. Finally, it is seen that the Atangana-Baleanu fractional differential operator captures more susceptibilities and fewer infections than the other operators.

Keywords: Q fever; Caputo derivative; Caputo-Fabrizio derivative; Atangana-Baleanu derivative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2022.111821

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