Assessing the impact of relapse, reinfection and recrudescence on malaria eradication policy: a bifurcation and optimal control analysis

H Tasman, D Aldila, PA Dumbela, MZ Ndii… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the present study, we propose and analyze an epidemic mathematical model for malaria
dynamics, considering multiple recurrent phenomena: relapse, reinfection, and …

An evolutionary game model of individual choices and bed net use: elucidating key aspect in malaria elimination strategies

Laxmi, CN Ngonghala… - Royal Society Open …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Insecticide-treated net (ITN) is the most applicable and cost-effective malaria intervention
measure in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. Although ITNs have been widely distributed …

Assessing the impact of insecticide-treated nets in the face of insecticide resistance on malaria control

CN Ngonghala - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
The mosquito-borne disease, malaria, continues to impose a devastating health and
economic burden worldwide. In malaria-endemic areas, insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) have …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions between climatic changes and intervention effects on malaria spatio-temporal dynamics in Uganda

J Ssempiira, J Kissa, B Nambuusi, E Mukooyo… - Parasite epidemiology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Although malaria burden in Uganda has declined since 2009 following the
scale-up of interventions, the disease is still the leading cause of hospitalization and death …

General ecological models for human subsistence, health and poverty

CN Ngonghala, GA De Leo, MM Pascual… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
The world's rural poor rely heavily on their immediate natural environment for subsistence
and suffer high rates of morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases. We present a …

Optimal bed net use for a dengue disease model with mosquito seasonal pattern

B Buonomo, R Della Marca - Mathematical Methods in the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Controversial results concerning the effectiveness of bed net in reducing dengue fever
transmission make further research necessary in this direction. At this aim, we consider a …

Mathematics of an epidemiology-genetics model for assessing the role of insecticides resistance on malaria transmission dynamics

J Mohammed-Awel, AB Gumel - Mathematical Biosciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Although the widespread use of indoors residual spraying (IRS) and insecticides treated
bednets (ITNs; later replaced by long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs)) has led to a dramatic …

Effects of changes in temperature on Zika dynamics and control

CN Ngonghala, SJ Ryan, B Tesla… - Journal of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
When a rare pathogen emerges to cause a pandemic, it is critical to understand its dynamics
and the impact of mitigation measures. We use experimental data to parametrize a …

Assessing the impact of treatment on the dynamics of dengue fever: A case study of India

AK Srivastav, M Ghosh - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2019 - Elsevier
Dengue is one of the most widely spread mosquito-borne viral diseases which is transmitted
by mosquitoes of Aedes species. It is endemic in all states and union territories (UTs) of …

A mathematical model for the population dynamics of malaria with a temperature dependent control

A Nwankwo, D Okuonghae - Differential Equations and Dynamical …, 2019 - Springer
In this work, we develop a mathematical model for malaria transmission that investigates the
impact of temperature on the efficacy of ITNs. The disease free state of the autonomous …