Dynamical System Analysis of a Lassa Fever Model with Varying Socioeconomic Classes
Joint Authors
Onah, Ifeanyi Sunday
Collins, Obiora Cornelius
Source
Journal of Applied Mathematics
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-11-25
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Lassa fever is an animal-borne acute viral illness caused by Lassa virus.
It poses a serious health challenge around the world today, especially in West African countries like Ghana, Benin, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.
In this work, we formulate a multiple-patch Lassa fever model, where each patch denotes a socioeconomic class (SEC).
Some of the important epidemiological features such as basic reproduction number of the model were determined and analysed accordingly.
We further investigated how varying SECs affect the transmission dynamics of Lassa fever.
We analysed the required state at which each SEC is responsible in driving the Lassa fever disease outbreak.
Sensitivity analyses were carried out to determine the importance of model parameters to the disease transmission and prevalence.
We carried out numerical simulation to support our analytical results.
Finally, we extend some of the results of the 2-patch model to the general n-patch model.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Onah, Ifeanyi Sunday& Collins, Obiora Cornelius. 2020. Dynamical System Analysis of a Lassa Fever Model with Varying Socioeconomic Classes. Journal of Applied Mathematics،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1174491
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Onah, Ifeanyi Sunday& Collins, Obiora Cornelius. Dynamical System Analysis of a Lassa Fever Model with Varying Socioeconomic Classes. Journal of Applied Mathematics No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1174491
American Medical Association (AMA)
Onah, Ifeanyi Sunday& Collins, Obiora Cornelius. Dynamical System Analysis of a Lassa Fever Model with Varying Socioeconomic Classes. Journal of Applied Mathematics. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1174491
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1174491