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Tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), remains one of the major infectious diseases of humans with 10 million TB cases and 1.5 million deaths due to TB worldwide yearly. Upon exposure of a new host to Mtb, bacteria typically infect one local site in the lung, but over time, Mtb disseminates in the lung and in some cases to extrapulmonary sites. The contribution of various host components such as immune cells to Mtb dynamics in the lung, its dissemination in the lung and outside of the lung, remains incompletely understood. Here we overview different types of mathematical models used to gain insights in within-host dynamics of Mtb; these include models based on ordinary or partial differential equations (ODEs and PDEs), stochastic simulation models based on ODEs, agent-based models (ABMs), and hybrid models (ODE-based models linked to ABMs). We illustrate results from several of such models and identify areas for future resesarch.

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04 January 2024
Pneumonia and COVID-19 co-infection modeling with optimal control analysis
Beza Zeleke Aga
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Hailay Weldegiorgis Berhe

In this study, we present a nonlinear deterministic mathematical model for co-infection of pneumonia and COVID-19 transmission dynamics. To understand the dynamics of the co-infection of COVID-19 and pneumonia sickness, we developed and examined a compartmental based ordinary differential equation type mathematical model. Firstly, we showed the limited region and non-negativity of the solution, which demonstrate that the model is biologically relevant and mathematically well-posed. Secondly, the Jacobian matrix and the Lyapunov function are used to illustrate the local and global stability of the equilibrium locations. If the related reproduction numbers R0c, R0p, and R0 are smaller than unity, then pneumonia, COVID-19, and their co-infection have disease-free equilibrium points that are both locally and globally asymptotically stable otherwise the endemic equilibrium points are stable. Sensitivity analysis is used to determine how each parameter affects the spread or control of the illnesses. Moreover, we applied the optimal control theory to describe the optimal control model that incorporates four controls, namely, prevention of pneumonia, prevention of COVID-19, treatment of infected pneumonia and treatment of infected COVID-19. Then the Pontryagin's maximum principle is introduced to obtain the necessary condition for the optimal control problem. Finally, the numerical simulation of optimality system reveals that the combination of treatment and prevention is the most optimal to minimize the diseases.

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Integrative Mathematical Models for Disease: Volume II
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