American Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
p-ISSN: 2165-8935 e-ISSN: 2165-8943
2015; 5(2): 42-65
doi:10.5923/j.ajcam.20150502.03
Laurencia Ndelamo Massawe1, Estomih S. Massawe2, Oluwole D. Makinde3
1Faculty of Science, Technology and Environmental Studies, The Open University of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2Mathematics Department, University of Dar es salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
3Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X2, Saldanha, South Africa
Correspondence to: Laurencia Ndelamo Massawe, Faculty of Science, Technology and Environmental Studies, The Open University of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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In this paper a mathematical model is presented to examine the effect of treatment, careful andCareless Susceptibles with control on the transmission of Dengue fever in the society. A nonlinear mathematical model for the problem is proposed and analysed quantitatively using the stability theory of the differential equations. The results show that the disease-free equilibrium point is locally and globally asymptotically stable if the reproduction number (R0) is less than unity. Then the endemic equilibrium is locally and globally asymptotically stable under certain conditions, using the additive compound matrices approach and Lyapunov method respectively. However treatment, careful Susceptibles and the control on the transmission of dengue fever disease will have a positive effect on decreasing the growth rate of dengue fever disease. The numerical simulation shows that on the application of vaccination, the number of infected individual is reduced.
Keywords: Dengue Fever Disease, treatment, Careful,Careless, Susceptible, Equilibrium, Control, infected, reproduction number, Vaccination
Cite this paper: Laurencia Ndelamo Massawe, Estomih S. Massawe, Oluwole D. Makinde, Dengue in Tanzania - Vector Control and Vaccination, American Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics , Vol. 5 No. 2, 2015, pp. 42-65. doi: 10.5923/j.ajcam.20150502.03.
is divided into five groups such as
- Careful human Susceptibles,
- Careless human Susceptibles,
- infected human,
- treated infected human,
- recovery infected human, so that we have
and the population of female mosquitoes, indexed by
is divided into three groups that is
-Aquatic phase (that includes the egg, larva and pupa stages),
- Susceptibles (mosquitoes that are able to contract the disease),
-Infectives (mosquitoes capable of transmitting the disease to human). In formulating the model, the following assumptions are considered:i. Total human population
is constant,ii. The population is homogeneous, which means that every individual of a compartment is homogeneously mixed with the other individuals,iii. Immigration and emigration are not considered,iv. Each vector has an equal probability to bite any host,v. Humans and mosquitoes are assumed to be born susceptible i.e. there is no natural protection,vi. The coefficient of transmission of the disease is fixed and does not vary seasonally,vii. For the mosquito there is no resistant phase, due to its short lifetime,viii. The possibility of careless Susceptibles contracting dengue fever disease is higher than that for careful Susceptibles.Considering the above assumptions, we then have the following schematic model flow diagram for dengue fever disease with control:![]() | Figure 1. Model Flow diagram for dengue fever disease with control |
![]() | (1) |
is the transmission probability from
(per bite),
is the maturation rate from larvae to adult (per day),
is the control maturation rate from larvae to adult,
is the average daily biting (per day) for mosquito susceptible,
is the transmission probability from
(per bite),
is the number of larvae per human,
is the number of eggs at each deposit per capita (per day),
is the fraction of subpopulation recruited into the population,
is the average daily biting (per day) for careful human susceptible,
is the average daily biting (per day) for careless human susceptible,
is the Positive change in behaviour of Careless individuals,
is the campaign of educating Careless human susceptible,
is the average lifespan of humans (per day),
is the per capita disease induced death rate for humans,
is the natural mortality of larvae (per day),
is the control of vector human contact ,
is the reducing vector breeding areas,
mean viremic period (per day),
average lifespan of adult mosquitoes (per day),
insecticide application,
portion that moves from compartment
to
due to loss of immunity and
treatment parameter.
The set is positively invariant with respect to Equation (1) [10].
and
, denoted by
. Thus
of the model system (1) is obtained as
where 
, is defined as the average number of secondary infections that occurs when one infective individual is introduced into a completely susceptible population [11].The basic reproduction number of the model (1)
is calculated by using the next generation matrix of an ODE [11]. Using the approach of [11].
is obtaining by taking the largest (dominant) Eigen value (spectral radius) of
where,
is the rate of appearance of new infection in compartment
is the transfer of individuals out of the compartment
by all other means and
is the disease free equilibrium.
Using the linearization method, the associated matrix at DFE is given by
This implies that
With
,we have
The transfer of individuals out of the compartment is given by
Using the linearization method, the associated matrix at DFE is given by,
This gives
With
Therefore![]() | (2) |
This gives
where
consequently
It follows that the Basic Reproductive number which is given by the largest Eigen value for model system (1) denoted by
is given by![]() | (3) |
, the disease cannot invade the population and the infection will die out over a period of time, and also, if
, then an invasion is possible and infection can spread through the population. Generally, the larger the value of
, the more severe, and possibly widespread the epidemic will be, [10].
of the model system (1) corresponding to the disease free
is obtained as![]() | (4) |

Therefore the stability of the disease free equilibrium point can be clarified by studying the behaviour of
in which for local stability of DFE we seek for its all eigenvalues to have negative real parts. It follows that, the characteristic function of the matrix (4) with
being the eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix, by using Mathematica software gives the following values:
The other eigenvalues are given as
when
is not a real number,
when
is not a real number,
when
is not a real number, and finally.
when
is not a real number, where
Hence under certain conditions the system is stable since all the eight eigenvalues are negative. These imply that at
the Disease Free Equilibrium point is locally asymptotically stable.
of the system. The results are obtained by means of Lyapunov function. In choosing the Lyapunov function, we adopt the idea of [12].Theorem1: If
, then the infection-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable in the interior of
.Proof: To establish the global stability of the disease-free equilibrium, we construct the following Lyapunov function:![]() | (5) |
along (4), we obtain
Then substituting
from system (1), we get
it follows that
where
Thus,
is negative if
and
if and only if
is reduced to the DFE. Consequently, the largest compact invariant set in
when
is the singleton
. Hence, by LaSalle’s invariance principle, it is implied that
is globally asymptotically stable in Ω [13]. This completes the proof.
respectively, in the feasible region
. The values of
can be determined by setting
to obtain![]() | (6) |
then the host-vector model system (6) has a unique endemic equilibrium given by
in
, with
But from (3)
where
of the nonlinear system (6) corresponding to
to get ![]() | (7) |
![]() | (9) |
The following lemma is stated and proved by [15] to demonstrate the local stability of endemic equilibrium point
.Lemma 1: Let
be a
real matrix.If
and
are all negative, then all eigenvalues of
have negative real parts.Using the above Lemma, we will study the stability of the endemic equilibrium.Theorem 2: If
the endemic equilibrium
of the model (1) is locally asymptotically stable in
.Proof: From the Jacobian matrix
in (7), we have .
But
from (3)Let
It follows that
where
Thus, from the lemma 1, the endemic equilibrium
of the model system (7) is locally asymptotically stable in
.
the endemic equilibrium
of the model system (1) is globally asymptotically stable.Proof: To establish the global stability of endemic equilibrium
we construct the following positive Lyapunov function
as follows;
Direct calculation of the derivative of
along the solutions of (1) gives,![]() | (8) |
Thus from equation (8), if
Then
will be negative definite, implying that
. It then follows that
if and only if
. Therefore the largest compact invariant set in
is the singleton
where
is the endemic equilibrium of the model system (1). By LaSalle’s invariant principle, then it implies that
is globally asymptotically stable in
if
. This completes the proof.


Figures 2 show the distribution of population with time in all classes of human and mosquito when no control is applied.Figures 2 show the human and mosquito populations in the absence of any control. The human infection reaches a peak between the 2th and the 20th day. The infection of the mosquitoes reaches a peak between the 10th and the 30th day. The total number of infected humans obtained from System (1) is higher than observations in Tanzania. The difference is due to the absence of the data in the whole country of Tanzania [17].![]() | Figure 2. Distribution of population with time in all classes of human and mosquito when no control is applied i.e. ![]() |

![]() | Figure 3. (i)-(ii): Variation of infected human and mosquito populations with combine use of all five controls |
is the careful human susceptible population,
is the careless human susceptible population,
is the vaccinated human population,
is the infected human population,
is the treated human population and
is the recovered human population,
is the fraction of the vaccinated careful human susceptible,
is the proportional rate at which vaccinated careful human susceptible loses effect,
is the reaction of the vaccinated careless human susceptible,
is the proportional rate at which vaccinated careless human susceptible loses effect,
is the proportion of the vaccinated new born,
is the infection rate of vaccinated careful human susceptible and
is the infection rate of vaccinated careless human susceptible. Susceptible individuals acquire Dengue fever through the bite of female Aedes mosquito with force of infections given by
, and
where
.Considering the above clarification, we then have the following schematic model flow diagram for dengue fever disease with vaccination:From the above flow diagram, the model will be governed by the following equations [17]:![]() | (10) |
of vaccinated new born. A fraction
and
of careful and careless susceptible is vaccinated respectively. The vaccination reduces but does not eliminate susceptibility to infection. For this reason, we consider the infection rate of vaccinated people: when
the vaccine is perfect and when
the vaccine has no effect at all. The vaccination loses effectiveness at a rate
and
careful and careless susceptible respectively [17].
, 



Figures 4 show the variation of infected human populations with different levels of infection rate of vaccinated careful human susceptible
, infection rate of vaccinated careless human susceptible
, fraction of the vaccinated careful human susceptible
and fraction of the vaccinated careless human susceptible
.From figure 4 we vary infection rate of vaccinated careful susceptible
, infection rate of vaccinated careless human susceptible
, fraction of the vaccinated careful human susceptible
and fraction of the vaccinated careless human susceptible
, and it is observed that the effectiveness of the vaccine reduces the disease spread.![]() | Figure 5. Model Flow diagram for dengue fever disease with vaccination |
, control vector human contact
, reducing vector breeding areas
, and insecticide application
, control maturation rate from larvae to adult
and treatment. The results show that Treatment and the controls on the transmission of dengue fever disease will have a positive effect on decreasing the growth rate of dengue fever disease. Then also shows that when
the infected human population decrease and when
the infected human population increase.