Affiliation:
1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Iringa, P.O. Box 200 Iringa, Tanzania
Abstract
Amoebiasis is a disease caused by the protozoan Entamoeba histolytica. It is often asymptomatic but may cause dysentery and invasive extraintestinal infection in humans. To gain an understanding of the disease, a fuzzy SEIR model of amoebiasis infection is presented with the fuzziness introduced in the disease transmission rate, the disease-induced death rate, and the rate of recovery from infection. The basic reproduction number
is computed and used to make a comparison with the fuzzy basic reproduction number
at different amounts of cysts as well as to analyse the stability of equilibrium points. Stability results indicate that the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium are locally and globally asymptotically stable. Further, numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the analytical results of the fuzzy model system. The result shows that whenever there is an outbreak, the disease is likely to persist in the first month and thereafter it will start to slow down to disease-free equilibrium.
Subject
Computational Mathematics,Control and Optimization,Control and Systems Engineering
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