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2015, 12(5): 983-1006. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2015.12.983

Multi-host transmission dynamics of schistosomiasis and its optimal control

Chunxiao Ding 1, , Zhipeng Qiu 1, and  Huaiping Zhu 2,

1. 

Department of Applied Mathematics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China
2. 

LAboratory of Mathematical Parallel Systems (LAMPS), Centre for Disease Modeling, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3

Received  December 2014 Revised  March 2015 Published  June 2015

In this paper we formulate a dynamical model to study the transmission dynamics of schistosomiasis in humans and snails. We also incorporate bovines in the model to study their impact on transmission and controlling the spread of Schistosoma japonicum in humans in China. The dynamics of the model is rigorously analyzed by using the theory of dynamical systems. The theoretical results show that the disease free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable if $\mathcal R_0<1$, and if $\mathcal R_0>1$ the system has only one positive equilibrium. The local stability of the unique positive equilibrium is investigated and sufficient conditions are also provided for the global stability of the positive equilibrium. The optimal control theory are further applied to the model to study the corresponding optimal control problem. Both analytical and numerical results suggest that: (a) the infected bovines play an important role in the spread of schistosomiasis among humans, and killing the infected bovines will be useful to prevent transmission of schistosomiasis among humans; (b) optimal control strategy performs better than the constant controls in reducing the prevalence of the infected human and the cost for implementing optimal control is much less than that for constant controls; and (c) improving the treatment rate of infected humans, the killing rate of the infected bovines and the fishing rate of snails in the early stage of spread of schistosomiasis are very helpful to contain the prevalence of infected human case as well as minimize the total cost.
Keywords: optimal control., Multi-hosts, transmission dynamics, stability, schistosomiasis.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 92B05, 92D3.
Citation: Chunxiao Ding, Zhipeng Qiu, Huaiping Zhu. Multi-host transmission dynamics of schistosomiasis and its optimal control. Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering, 2015, 12 (5) : 983-1006. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2015.12.983
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C. Castillo-Chevez and H. R. Thieme, Asymptotically autonomous epidemic models,, Mathematical Population Dynamics: Analysis of Heterogeneity, 1 (1995), 33.   Google Scholar

[5]

Z. Feng, C. Li and F. A. Milner, Schistosomiasis models with density dependence and age of infection in snail dynamics,, Mathematical Biosciences, 177 (2002), 271.  doi: 10.1016/S0025-5564(01)00115-8.  Google Scholar

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[14]

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World Health Organization, , ().   Google Scholar

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J. Xiang, H. Chen and H. Ishikawa, A mathematical model for the transmission of Schistosoma japonicum in consideration of seasonal water level fluctuations of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi, China,, Parasitology International, 62 (2013), 118.   Google Scholar

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P. Zhang, Z. Feng and F. Milner, A schistosomiasis model with an age-structure in human hosts and its application to treatment strategies,, Mathematical Biosciences, 205 (2007), 83.  doi: 10.1016/j.mbs.2006.06.006.  Google Scholar

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Y. B. Zhou, S. Liang and Q. W. Jiang, Factors impacting on progress towards elimination of transmission of schistosomiasis japonica in China,, Parasit Vectors, 5 (2012), 257.   Google Scholar

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