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MODELING THE EFFECT OF VACCINES ON CHOLERA TRANSMISSION

URMI GHOSH-DASTIDAR

Department of Mathematics, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Namm 711, 300 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA

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SUZANNE LENHART

Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-1300, USA

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218339015500175Cited by:4 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Cholera is a diarrhoeal disease that is caused by an intestinal bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. Recently an outbreak of cholera in Haiti brought public attention to this deadly disease. In this work, the goal of our differential equation model is to find an effective optimal vaccination strategy to minimize the disease related mortality and to reduce the associated costs. The effect of seasonality in pathogen transmission on vaccination strategies was investigated under several types of disease scenarios, including an endemic case and a new outbreak case. This model is an extension of a general water-borne pathogen model. This work involves the optimal control problem formulation, analysis and numerical simulations.

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