Climate, environmental and socio-economic change: weighing up the balance in vector-borne disease transmission

…, D Hemming, F Agusto… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Arguably one of the most important effects of climate change is the potential impact on human
health. While this is likely to take many forms, the implications for future transmission of …

The impact of bed-net use on malaria prevalence

FB Agusto, SY Del Valle, KW Blayneh… - Journal of theoretical …, 2013 - Elsevier
… Next, we evaluate F and V, which are the Jacobian matrices of F and V , respectively,
evaluated as functions of the vector ( I h , I v ) at the disease-free equilibrium Σ 0 given by (5) F = 0 …

Optimal control strategies for dengue transmission in Pakistan

FB Agusto, MA Khan - Mathematical biosciences, 2018 - Elsevier
… then using the notation in [27], the Jacobian F and V matrices for new infectious terms and the
… Hence, in Appendix F, we ignore the disease induce death rate and show that the disease-…

[HTML][HTML] Optimal control and sensitivity analysis of an influenza model with treatment and vaccination

JM Tchuenche, SA Khamis, FB Agusto, SC Mpeshe - Acta biotheoretica, 2011 - Springer
… where t f is the final time and the coefficients, A 1 , C 1 , C 2 , C 3 are balancing cost factors.
… Furthermore, A 2 S(t f ), A 3 V(t f ) are respectively the fitness of the susceptible and the …

[HTML][HTML] Mathematical model of Zika virus with vertical transmission

FB Agusto, S Bewick, WF Fagan - Infectious Disease Modelling, 2017 - Elsevier
… and V for the new infection terms and the remaining transfer terms are respectively given by,
F = ( 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 η β B b V S B * N B * 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 …

Application of optimal control to the epidemiology of malaria

FB Agusto, N Marcus, KO Okosun - 2012 - kuscholarworks.ku.edu
Malaria is a deadly disease transmitted to humans through the bite of infected female
mosquitoes. In this paper a deterministic system of differential equations is presented and studied …

[HTML][HTML] Mathematical assessment of the effect of traditional beliefs and customs on the transmission dynamics of the 2014 Ebola outbreaks

FB Agusto, MI Teboh-Ewungkem, AB Gumel - BMC medicine, 2015 - Springer
… function, the key parameters (Figure 8b) are the escape rate from hospitalization of symptomatic
individuals (ω CH ), the fraction of symptomatic individuals who recovered in hospital (f), …

Mathematical model for Zika virus dynamics with sexual transmission route

FB Agusto, S Bewick, WF Fagan - Ecological Complexity, 2017 - Elsevier
… + μ F ) E F . Likewise, the infected class population is decreased as a result of recovery at
a rate γ F and natural death at a rate μ F . Hence, we have dI F dt = σ F E F − ( γ F + μ F ) I F . …

Optimal isolation control strategies and cost-effectiveness analysis of a two-strain avian influenza model

FB Agusto - Biosystems, 2013 - Elsevier
The most important and effective measures against disease outbreaks in the absence of valid
medicines or vaccine are quarantine and isolation strategies. In this paper optimal control …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal control and cost-effective analysis of malaria/visceral leishmaniasis co-infection

FB Agusto, IM ELmojtaba - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
In this paper, a deterministic model involving the transmission dynamics of malaria/visceral
leishmaniasis co-infection is presented and studied. Optimal control theory is then applied to …