Global Stability of a Reaction–Diffusion Malaria/COVID-19 Coinfection Dynamics Model

Ahmed M. Elaiw () and Afnan D. Al Agha
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Ahmed M. Elaiw: Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
Afnan D. Al Agha: Department of Mathematical Science, College of Engineering, University of Business and Technology, Jeddah 21361, Saudi Arabia

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 22, 1-31

Abstract: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a new virus which infects the respiratory system and causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The coinfection between malaria and COVID-19 has been registered in many countries. This has risen an urgent need to understand the dynamics of coinfection. In this paper, we construct a reaction–diffusion in-host malaria/COVID-19 model. The model includes seven-dimensional partial differential equations that explore the interactions between seven compartments, healthy red blood cells (RBCs), infected RBCs, free merozoites, healthy epithelial cells (ECs), infected ECs, free SARS-CoV-2 particles, and antibodies. The biological validation of the model is confirmed by establishing the nonnegativity and boundedness of the model’s solutions. All equilibrium points with the corresponding existence conditions are calculated. The global stability of all equilibria is proved by picking up appropriate Lyapunov functionals. Numerical simulations are used to enhance and visualize the theoretical results. We found that the equilibrium points show the different cases when malaria and SARS-CoV-2 infections occur as mono-infection or coinfection. The shared antibody immune response decreases the concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 and malaria merozoites. This can have an important role in reducing the severity of SARS-CoV-2 if the immune response works effectively.

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; malaria; immune response; diffusion; global stability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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