Mathematical models of the spread of dengue fever in Shah Alam / Nuraini Yusoff

Dengue fever has been a serious health threat in Malaysia and more than 50 other countries which are located in tropical and subtropical regions. It is a vector-borne disease and its main vector is the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Understanding the spread of this disease will certainly help in controllin...

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Main Author: Yusoff, Nuraini
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2015
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spelling uitm-195832018-06-12T05:56:38Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19583/ Mathematical models of the spread of dengue fever in Shah Alam / Nuraini Yusoff Yusoff, Nuraini Malaysia Dengue fever has been a serious health threat in Malaysia and more than 50 other countries which are located in tropical and subtropical regions. It is a vector-borne disease and its main vector is the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Understanding the spread of this disease will certainly help in controlling it and this can be done with the help of mathematical models. In order to come up with a suitable model, an in depth study on the role of temperature and amount of rainfall in contributing to the number of dengue fever cases was done. In this study, two main parts of modeling were done, one was the modeling of the population dynamics of the vector, and another was on the modeling of the epidemic. In the modeling of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, a stagestructured model was constructed based on the temperature and rainfall of Shah Alam. A simulation was done and verified with the surveillance data collected by Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam. The result obtained was tabulated and represented as a cosine function. For the epidemic model, the vector population was divided into two stages, before and after first egg-laying. This was done because it was found that the biting rates for these two groups of vectors vary and affect the modeling result. Result from the modeling of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes was used as the recruitment rate for vectors in the construction of the vector-host epidemic model… Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2015 Book Section PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19583/1/ABS_NURAINI%20YUSOFF%20TDRA%20VOL%208%20IGS%2015.pdf Yusoff, Nuraini (2015) Mathematical models of the spread of dengue fever in Shah Alam / Nuraini Yusoff. In: The Doctoral Research Abstracts. IGS Biannual Publication, 8 (8). Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam.
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Mathematical models of the spread of dengue fever in Shah Alam / Nuraini Yusoff
description Dengue fever has been a serious health threat in Malaysia and more than 50 other countries which are located in tropical and subtropical regions. It is a vector-borne disease and its main vector is the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Understanding the spread of this disease will certainly help in controlling it and this can be done with the help of mathematical models. In order to come up with a suitable model, an in depth study on the role of temperature and amount of rainfall in contributing to the number of dengue fever cases was done. In this study, two main parts of modeling were done, one was the modeling of the population dynamics of the vector, and another was on the modeling of the epidemic. In the modeling of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, a stagestructured model was constructed based on the temperature and rainfall of Shah Alam. A simulation was done and verified with the surveillance data collected by Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam. The result obtained was tabulated and represented as a cosine function. For the epidemic model, the vector population was divided into two stages, before and after first egg-laying. This was done because it was found that the biting rates for these two groups of vectors vary and affect the modeling result. Result from the modeling of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes was used as the recruitment rate for vectors in the construction of the vector-host epidemic model…
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title Mathematical models of the spread of dengue fever in Shah Alam / Nuraini Yusoff
title_short Mathematical models of the spread of dengue fever in Shah Alam / Nuraini Yusoff
title_full Mathematical models of the spread of dengue fever in Shah Alam / Nuraini Yusoff
title_fullStr Mathematical models of the spread of dengue fever in Shah Alam / Nuraini Yusoff
title_full_unstemmed Mathematical models of the spread of dengue fever in Shah Alam / Nuraini Yusoff
title_sort mathematical models of the spread of dengue fever in shah alam / nuraini yusoff
publisher Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM
publishDate 2015
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19583/
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