Campylobacteriosis Transmission Dynamics in Humans: Modeling the Effects of Public Health Education, Treatment, and Sanitation

Abstract

An epidemic model for the dynamics of campylobacteriosis disease with public health education, treatment, and sanitation control strategies was formulated and analyzed. The stabilities of the equilibrium points were analyzed by using the Routh-Hurwitz criterion. The effective reproduction number was computed by using the Next Generation Matrix method. Numerical simulations were carried out and the results showed that, public health education has a substantial influence on the reduction of the effective reproduction number. Moreover, treatment and sanitation control strategies have also shown significant reduction of infected individuals from the respective population.
Keywords: Campylobacteriosis; public health education; treatment; sanitation.