Analysis of the effect of a medical treatment in a SIC model

[EN] In this work, we consider an epidemic model with indirect transmission of the disease. We apply a medical treatment as a control strategy when the disease is not eradicated. The effect of this treatment is to reduce the amount of bacteria in the environment. We analyze two assumptions and compa...

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Autores: Coll, Carmen|||0000-0002-6487-3922, Ginestar Peiro, Damián|||0000-0003-1243-6648, Herrero Debón, Alicia|||0000-0002-4348-8486, Sánchez, Elena|||0000-0002-0972-6612
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/220824
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/220824
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Control strategy
Epidemic process
Indirect transmission
Discrete-time system
Stability
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Sumario:[EN] In this work, we consider an epidemic model with indirect transmission of the disease. We apply a medical treatment as a control strategy when the disease is not eradicated. The effect of this treatment is to reduce the amount of bacteria in the environment. We analyze two assumptions and compare their effect on the evolution of the model behavior: a medical treatment on a constant percentage of the infected population applied either at all times or periodically. Finally, an optimal control strategy is analyzed to minimize the cost of the control application. We use a numerical simulation to clarify and discuss the goodness of the obtained results.