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ArticleJournal of mathematical biology2018

A switching model for the impact of toxins on the spread of infectious diseases.

Lulu Wang, Zhen Jin, Hao Wang

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Article in Journal of mathematical biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lulu WangComplex Systems Research Center, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, Shanxi, China.
Zhen JinComplex Systems Research Center, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, Shanxi, China. jinzhn@263.net.
Hao WangDepartment of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G1, Canada.
Shanxi University · CNUniversity of Alberta · CA

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China 2016YFD0501500National Natural Science Foundation of China 11331009the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 11601292
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To study the effects of an environmental toxin, such as fine particles in hazy weather, on the spread of infectious diseases, we derive a toxin-dependent dynamic model that incorporates the birth rate with the toxin-dependent switching mode, the mortality rate, and infection rate with the toxin-dependent saturation effect. We analyze the model by showing the positive invariance, existence and stability of equilibria, and bifurcations. Numerical simulation is adopted to verify the mathematical results and exhibit transcritical and Hopf bifurcations. Our theoretical results show that there exists a threshold value of the environmental toxin: if the environmental toxin concentration is lower than the threshold, the system has a disease-free equilibrium and an interior equilibrium; if the environmental toxin concentration is higher than the threshold, the system has the extinction equilibrium. For the case where the disease-induced death is ignored, we show the global stability results. Numerical simulations clearly show that the environmental toxin facilitates the spread of infectious diseases. This study provides a theoretical basis for uncovering the impact of toxins on the spread of infectious diseases and for guiding the decision making by disease control agencies and governments.

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Models, BiologicalCommunicable DiseasesComputer SimulationDisease SusceptibilityHazardous SubstancesHumansMathematical ConceptsNonlinear DynamicsParticulate MatterWeatherHazardous SubstancesParticulate MatterBifurcationEnvironmental toxinInfectious diseaseStabilitySwitching model

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