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Modeling and Optimal Control of Plasmodium Knowlesi Malaria Spread from Infected Humans to Mosquitoes

Mohammed Baba Abdullahi, Yahya Abu Hasan, Farah Aini Abdullah

Annual Research & Review in Biology · pp. 4482–4501 · Published 21 Aug 2014

10.9734/ARRB/2014/12044

Abstract

Malaria as among vector-borne diseases is reemerging in areas where control efforts were once effective and emerging in areas though free of the disease as a consequence of human migration and rapid growth of international traffic from malaria prevalent areas of the world to malaria free zone. In this paper we develop a mathematical model for the spread of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria from infected humans to mosquitoes. The stability analysis of the model is investigated rigorously. The model is extended to assess the impact of time dependent preventive (biological and chemical control) against the mosquitoes and treatment for infected humans. The existence of optimal control is established analytically by the use of optimal control theory. Numerical simulations of the problem, suggest that applying the three control measure can effectively reduce if not eliminate the spread of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in a community.

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