Optimal Control of Chlamydia Model with Vaccination

Abstract

This paper presents an SVEIRT epidemiological model in the human population with Chlamydia trachomatis. The model incorporated the vaccination class and investigated the role played by some control strategies in the dynamics of the disease (Chlamydia tracomatis). The reproduction number which helps in determining the rate of spread of the disease, was calculated using the method proosed by van den Driessche and Watmough. The local and global stability of the equilibrium points where established, where it was observed that the model is locally asymptotically stable if the reproduction number is less than unity, and globally stable if a certain threshold value is greater than unity or the re-infection rate is zero. The effect of the re-infection rate on the global stability suggests the exhibition of the phenomenon of backward bifurcation of the model. The backward bifurcation of the system was later studied, and it shows that backward bifurcation will occur if the value of the bifurcation parameter a is positive. The optimal control of the model shows the effect of different strategies in the transmission dynamicsof the disease and the cost effectivenes of each control pair. It was observed that the treatment and control effort gives the most cost effective combinations and at the same time the highest rate of disease avertion when compared to other stratagies. Sensitivity analysis of the parameters as shown in model, shows parameters that have high impact on the chosen classes.

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