#TITLE_ALTERNATIVE#
Lymphatic filariasis or elephantiasis is a type of disease that makes people suffer physically and psychologically. Filarisis is caused by filariae worm which is transmitted by mosquito. WHO recommends DEC (Diethylcarbamazine) mass treatment for at least five years to achieve the most effective resu...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Final Project |
| Language: | Indonesia |
| Online Access: | https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/16413 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Institution: | Institut Teknologi Bandung |
| Language: | Indonesia |
| Summary: | Lymphatic filariasis or elephantiasis is a type of disease that makes people suffer physically and psychologically. Filarisis is caused by filariae worm which is transmitted by mosquito. WHO recommends DEC (Diethylcarbamazine) mass treatment for at least five years to achieve the most effective results in eliminating the spread of filariasis. DEC mass treatment is assumed to kill all microfilariae in the human body and partially reduce macrofilariae. In this final project, a dynamical model representing the interaction between human and vector is contructed. In the model, a portion of human population is given treatment. The treatment affects the probability of successful transmision from mosquito to human, the probability of successful transmision from human to mosquito, recovery rate due to imune response, and the transision rate.The aim of this final project is to know the effectiveness of mass treatment for variation of proportion and for variation of treatment period. It is shown that the number of infected human decreases significantly and reappear slowly as the proportion of treated human increases. Numerical solutions are shown for variation of proportions and treatment periods. |
|---|