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ArticleComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2018

Mathematical Modelling of Bacterial Meningitis Transmission Dynamics with Control Measures.

Joshua Kiddy K Asamoah, Farai Nyabadza, Baba Seidu, Mehar Chand, Hemen Dutta

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Article in Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Joshua Kiddy K AsamoahDepartment of Mathematics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0002-7066-246X
Farai NyabadzaDivision of Mathematics, Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-8607-7372
Baba SeiduDepartment of Mathematics, University for Development Studies, Navrongo, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0001-5652-2690
Mehar ChandDepartment of Applied Sciences, Guru Kashi University, Bathinda, India.
Hemen DuttaDepartment of Mathematics, Gauhati University, Guwahati 781014, India.
Gauhati University · INGuru Kashi University · INKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · GHStellenbosch University · ZAUniversity for Development Studies · GH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccination and treatment are the most effective ways of controlling the transmission of most infectious diseases. While vaccination helps susceptible individuals to build either a long-term immunity or short-term immunity, treatment reduces the number of disease-induced deaths and the number of infectious individuals in a community/nation. In this paper, a nonlinear deterministic model with time-dependent controls has been proposed to describe the dynamics of bacterial meningitis in a population. The model is shown to exhibit a unique globally asymptotically stable disease-free equilibrium

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Models, TheoreticalHumansMeningitis, BacterialMeningococcal VaccinesNonlinear DynamicsVaccinationMeningococcal Vaccines

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PMID29780431
PMCPMC5892307
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