A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
A quantitative model of population dynamics in malaria with drug treatment
Authors: Le Thi Thanh An, and Willi Jäger
Publisher: Springer
Publishing place: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication year: 2014
Journal: Journal of Mathematical Biology
Article number: 659
Volume: 69
Issue: 3
First page : 659
Last page: 685
Number of pages: 27
ISSN: 0303-6812
eISSN: 1432-1416
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-013-0716-0
Web address : http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00285-013-0716-0
In this paper we build a population dynamics of malaria including drug treatment. By taking into account both sensitive and resistant parasites, we want to see the effect of treatments on resistance phenomenon and prevent it from overspreading. Our main results include a new dynamics model, its mathematical properties which are found through analysis, the determination of unknown parameters with help of a data set for malaria from Burkina Faso and the numerical simulations of the fitted model. Based on these results, treatment strategies to reduce drug resistance can be elaborated.