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ArticleComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2019

Optimal Control Analysis of Pneumonia and Meningitis Coinfection.

Getachew Teshome Tilahun

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Article in Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Getachew Teshome TilahunHaramaya University, Department of Mathematics, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5372-4051
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Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a deterministic model of pneumonia-meningitis coinfection. We used a system of seven ordinary differential equations. Firstly, the qualitative behaviours of the model such as positivity of the solution, existence of the solution, the equilibrium points, basic reproduction number, analysis of equilibrium points, and sensitivity analysis are studied. The disease-free equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable if the basic reproduction number is kept less than unity, and conditions for global stability are established. Then, the basic model is extended to optimal control by incorporating four control interventions, such as prevention of pneumonia as well as meningitis and also treatment of pneumonia and meningitis diseases. The optimality system is obtained by using Pontryagin's maximum principle. For simulation of the optimality system, we proposed five strategies to check the effect of the controls. First, we consider prevention only for both diseases, and the result shows that applying prevention control has a great impact in bringing down the expansion of pneumonia, meningitis, and their coinfection in the specified period of time. The other strategies are prevention effort for pneumonia and treatment effort for meningitis, prevention effort for meningitis and treatment effort for pneumonia, treatment effort for both diseases, and using all interventions. We obtained that each of the listed strategies is effective in minimizing the expansion of pneumonia-only, meningitis-only, and coinfectious population in the specified period of time.

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CoinfectionAlgorithmsBasic Reproduction NumberComputer SimulationDisease-Free SurvivalHumansMeningitisModels, BiologicalModels, StatisticalPneumonia

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