# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

January  2013, 18(1): 147-161. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2013.18.147

## Dynamics of a dengue fever transmission model with crowding effect in human population and spatial variation

 1 Department of Mathematics, National Chung Cheng University, Min-Hsiung, Chia-Yi 621 2 Department of Natural Science in the Center for General Education, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan

Received  September 2011 Revised  April 2012 Published  September 2012

Dengue fever is a virus-caused disease in the world. Since the high infection rate of dengue fever and high death rate of its severe form dengue hemorrhagic fever, the control of the spread of the disease is an important issue in the public health. In an effort to understand the dynamics of the spread of the disease, Esteva and Vargas [2] proposed a SIR v.s. SI epidemiological model without crowding effect and spatial heterogeneity. They found a threshold parameter $R_0,$ if $R_0<1,$ then the disease will die out; if $R_0>1,$ then the disease will always exist.
To investigate how the spatial heterogeneity and crowding effect influence the dynamics of the spread of the disease, we modify the autonomous system provided in [2] to obtain a reaction-diffusion system. We first define the basic reproduction number in an abstract way and then employ the comparison theorem and the theory of uniform persistence to study the global dynamics of the modified system. Basically, we show that the basic reproduction number is a threshold parameter that predicts whether the disease will die out or persist. Further, we demonstrate the basic reproduction number in an explicit way and construct suitable Lyapunov functionals to determine the global stability for the special case where coefficients are all constant.
Citation: Tzy-Wei Hwang, Feng-Bin Wang. Dynamics of a dengue fever transmission model with crowding effect in human population and spatial variation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2013, 18 (1) : 147-161. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2013.18.147
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##### References:
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Pazy, "Semigroups of Linear Operators and Applicationto Partial Differential Equations,", Springer-Verlag, (1983).   Google Scholar [18] L. Rosen, D. A. Shroyer, R. B. Tesh, J. E. Freirer and J. Ch. Lien, Transovarial transmission of dengue viruses by mosquitoes A. Alhopictus and a. Aegypti,, Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 32, 32 (1983).   Google Scholar [19] M. H. Protter and H. F. Weinberger, "Maximum Principles in Differential Equations,", Springer-Verlag, (1984).   Google Scholar [20] H. L. Smith, "Monotone Dynamical Systems: An Introduction to the Theory of Competitive and Cooperative Systems,", Math. Surveys Monogr 41, 41 (1995).   Google Scholar [21] H. L. Smith and X.-Q. Zhao, Robust persistence for semidynamical systems,, Nonlinear Anal., 47 (2001), 6169.  doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(01)00678-2.  Google Scholar [22] H. R. Thieme, Convergence results and a Poincare-Bendixson trichotomy for asymptotically autonomous differential equations,, J. Math. 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Math., 71 (2011), 147.  doi: 10.1137/090775890.  Google Scholar [28] X.-Q. Zhao, "Dynamical Systems in Population Biology,", CMS Books in Mathematics/Ouvrages de Mathématiques de la SMC, 16 (2003).   Google Scholar
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