DIFFERENTIAL-EQUATION MODELS OF SOME PARASITIC INFECTIONS - METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF ASYMPTOTIC-BEHAVIOR
DIFFERENTIAL-EQUATION MODELS OF SOME PARASITIC INFECTIONS - METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF ASYMPTOTIC-BEHAVIOR
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DOI:
10.1002/cpa.3160380607
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
GABRIEL, JP
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作者:
HIRSCH, WM;HANISCH, H;GABRIEL, JP
We discuss in this paper the asymptotic behavior of solutions of certain two-dimensional autonomous systems of ordinary differential equations which arise in the study of the transmission of parasitic infections. The phenomenological aspects of the subject have been described in [2]. In the present work we shall emphasize mathematical methods, and therefore we give here only the flavor of the parasitological background., In [7],[8], Nhsell and Hirsch pr ‘oposed mathematical models of the transmission of two types of parasitic worms, dioecious (two sexes) and hermaphroditic (single sex). Both types of worms have similar life-cycles. There is a vertebrate host which produces and excretes a first larval form. This infects a molluscan host, which produces and excretes a second larval form. In turn, this infects a vertebrate host, completing the life-cycte. Thus the dynamics of transmission can be epitomized as a flow from the vertebrate to the molluscan population and back again.