Volume 3, Issue 2
Modeling the Transmission of West Nile Virus with ${\it Wolbachia}$ in a Heterogeneous Environment

Mengli Liu, Min Zhu & Xiaofei Song

J. Nonl. Mod. Anal., 3 (2021), pp. 301-319.

Published online: 2021-04

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${\it Wolbachia}$ are maternally transmitted endosymbiotic bacteria. To investigate the effect of ${\it Wolbachia}$ on the spreading and vanishing of West Nile virus, we construct a reaction-diffusion model associated with the ${\it Wolbachia}$ parameter in a heterogeneous environment, which has nonlinear infectious disease parameters. Based on the spectral radius of next infection operator and the related eigenvalue problem, we present a corresponding explicit expression describing the basic reproduction number. Furthermore, utilizing this number, we not only give out the stability of disease-free equilibrium, but also analyze the uniqueness and globally asymptotic behavior of endemic equilibrium. Our theoretical results and numerical simulations indicate that only if ${\it Wolbachia}$ reach a certain magnitude in mosquitoes, it can be effective in the control of West Nile virus.

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@Article{JNMA-3-301, author = {Liu , MengliZhu , Min and Song , Xiaofei}, title = {Modeling the Transmission of West Nile Virus with ${\it Wolbachia}$ in a Heterogeneous Environment}, journal = {Journal of Nonlinear Modeling and Analysis}, year = {2021}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, pages = {301--319}, abstract = {

${\it Wolbachia}$ are maternally transmitted endosymbiotic bacteria. To investigate the effect of ${\it Wolbachia}$ on the spreading and vanishing of West Nile virus, we construct a reaction-diffusion model associated with the ${\it Wolbachia}$ parameter in a heterogeneous environment, which has nonlinear infectious disease parameters. Based on the spectral radius of next infection operator and the related eigenvalue problem, we present a corresponding explicit expression describing the basic reproduction number. Furthermore, utilizing this number, we not only give out the stability of disease-free equilibrium, but also analyze the uniqueness and globally asymptotic behavior of endemic equilibrium. Our theoretical results and numerical simulations indicate that only if ${\it Wolbachia}$ reach a certain magnitude in mosquitoes, it can be effective in the control of West Nile virus.

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TY - JOUR T1 - Modeling the Transmission of West Nile Virus with ${\it Wolbachia}$ in a Heterogeneous Environment AU - Liu , Mengli AU - Zhu , Min AU - Song , Xiaofei JO - Journal of Nonlinear Modeling and Analysis VL - 2 SP - 301 EP - 319 PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04 SN - 3 DO - http://doi.org/10.12150/jnma.2021.301 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jnma/18792.html KW - West Nile virus model, ${\it Wolbachia}$, Basic reproduction number, Stability. AB -

${\it Wolbachia}$ are maternally transmitted endosymbiotic bacteria. To investigate the effect of ${\it Wolbachia}$ on the spreading and vanishing of West Nile virus, we construct a reaction-diffusion model associated with the ${\it Wolbachia}$ parameter in a heterogeneous environment, which has nonlinear infectious disease parameters. Based on the spectral radius of next infection operator and the related eigenvalue problem, we present a corresponding explicit expression describing the basic reproduction number. Furthermore, utilizing this number, we not only give out the stability of disease-free equilibrium, but also analyze the uniqueness and globally asymptotic behavior of endemic equilibrium. Our theoretical results and numerical simulations indicate that only if ${\it Wolbachia}$ reach a certain magnitude in mosquitoes, it can be effective in the control of West Nile virus.

Liu , MengliZhu , Min and Song , Xiaofei. (2021). Modeling the Transmission of West Nile Virus with ${\it Wolbachia}$ in a Heterogeneous Environment. Journal of Nonlinear Modeling and Analysis. 3 (2). 301-319. doi:10.12150/jnma.2021.301
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