Work place: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Federal University Wukari, 67010, Nigeria
E-mail: okoriec636@gmail.com
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5006-1870
Research Interests: Mathematical programming, Mathematics of Computing, Computational Mathematics
Biography
Mrs. Ebelechukwu Charity Okorie is currently employed as a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, Federal University Wukari, Nigeria. She obtained her B.Sc. from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria in 1998 and M.Sc. from Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria in 2012, both in Applied Mathematics. Her main research areas are Mathematical Modelling and Biomathematics
By Emeka Emmanuel Otti Ebelechukwu C. Okorie Sunday M. Bulus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2023.01.01, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2023
In this work, we formulated a deterministic mathematical continuous time model for the detection and elimination of a non-life threatening disease (head lice) by considering a fixed (constant) population size during the epidemic period. The formulated mathematical model was normalized for easy analysis, the model’s properties were obtained, as well as the disease free equilibrium point, the local stability and the basic reproduction number. We adopted MATLAB programing language to carry out the numerical simulation of the nonlinear ordinary differential equation, as well as simulation of different model state variables and effects of different model parameters on the state variables over time. Our result shows that early detection and treatment will lead to termination of the disease.
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