Numerical study of Zika model as a mosquito-borne virus with non-singular fractional derivative

Author(s):  
Sachin Kumar ◽  
Dia Zeidan

Zika virus infection, which is closely related to dengue, is becoming a global threat to human society. The transmission of the Zika virus from one human to another is spread by bites of Aedes mosquitoes. Recent studies also reveal the fact that the Zika virus can be transmitted by sexual interaction. In this paper, we use the fractional derivative with Mittag–Leffler non-singular kernel to study Zika virus transmission dynamics. This fractional is also known as the Atangana–Baleanu Caputo (ABC) derivative which is employed for the resulting system of ordinary differential equations. We investigate the proposed Zika virus model by using the Legendre spectral method. The model parameters are estimated and validated numerically by investigating the effect of fractional order exponent on various cases such as Susceptible human, infected human, asymptomatic carrier, exposed human, and recovered human. Numerical results obtained with the proposed method have been compared with exact solutions, showing in all parameters a very satisfactory agreement.

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Author(s):  
X. Y. Liu ◽  
W. W. Wang ◽  
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Q. W. Pan

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Author(s):  
I. A. Kuznetsov ◽  
A. V. Kuznetsov

Modeling of intracellular processes occurring during the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be instrumental in understanding the disease and can potentially contribute to finding treatments for the disease. The model of intracellular processes in AD, which we previously developed, contains a large number of parameters. To distinguish between more important and less important parameters, we performed a local sensitivity analysis of this model around the values of parameters that give the best fit with published experimental results. We show that the influence of model parameters on the total concentrations of amyloid precursor protein (APP) and tubulin-associated unit (tau) protein in the axon is reciprocal to the influence of the same parameters on the average velocities of the same proteins during their transport in the axon. The results of our analysis also suggest that in the beginning of AD the aggregation of amyloid-β and misfolded tau protein have little effect on transport of APP and tau in the axon, which suggests that early damage in AD may be reversible.


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Alexis Robison ◽  
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In urban settings, chikungunya, Zika, and dengue viruses are transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Since these viruses co-circulate in several regions, coinfection in humans and vectors may occur, and human coinfections have been frequently reported. Yet, little is known about the molecular aspects of virus interactions within hosts and how they contribute to arbovirus transmission dynamics. We have previously shown that Aedes aegypti exposed to chikungunya and Zika viruses in the same blood meal can become coinfected and transmit both viruses simultaneously. However, mosquitoes may also become coinfected by multiple, sequential feeds on single infected hosts. Therefore, we tested whether sequential infection with chikungunya and Zika viruses impacts mosquito vector competence. We exposed Ae. aegypti mosquitoes first to one virus and 7 days later to the other virus and compared infection, dissemination, and transmission rates between sequentially and single infected groups. We found that coinfection rates were high after sequential exposure and that mosquitoes were able to co-transmit both viruses. Surprisingly, chikungunya virus coinfection enhanced Zika virus transmission 7 days after the second blood meal. Our data demonstrate heterologous arbovirus synergism within mosquitoes, by unknown mechanisms, leading to enhancement of transmission under certain conditions.


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