Global stability of two models with incomplete treatment for tuberculosis. (English) Zbl 1211.92038
Two tuberculosis (TB) models with incomplete treatment are investigated. It is assumed that the treated individuals may enter either the latent compartment due to the remainder of Mycobacterium tuberculosis or the infectious compartment due to treatment failure. The first model is a simple one with treatment failure reflecting the current TB treatment fact in most countries with high tuberculosis incidence. The second model refines the simple one by dividing the latent compartment into slow and fast two kinds of progresses. This improvement can be used to describe the case that the latent TB individuals have been infected with some other chronic diseases (such as HIV and diabetes) which may weaken the immunity of infected individuals and shorten the latent period of TB. Both of the two models assume mass action incidence and exponential distributions of transfers between different compartments. The basic reproduction numbers of the two models are derived and their intuitive epidemiological interpretations are given. The global dynamics of two models are all proved by using Liapunov functions. At last, some strategies to control the spread of tuberculosis are discussed. This reviewer strongly proposes that the multistrain nature of Tb should be taken into account. This is the main reason of the recurrence of this disease.
Reviewer: E. Ahmed (Mansoura)
MSC:
| 92C60 | Medical epidemiology |
| 34D20 | Stability of solutions to ordinary differential equations |
| 92D30 | Epidemiology |
| 34D23 | Global stability of solutions to ordinary differential equations |
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