AUTHOR=Egbelowo Oluwaseun F. , Munyakazi Justin B. , Dlamini Phumlani G. , Osaye Fadekemi J. , Simelane Simphiwe M. TITLE=Modeling visceral leishmaniasis and tuberculosis co-infection dynamics JOURNAL=Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics VOLUME=9 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/applied-mathematics-and-statistics/articles/10.3389/fams.2023.1153666 DOI=10.3389/fams.2023.1153666 ISSN=2297-4687 ABSTRACT=
The co-infection of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and tuberculosis (TB) patients pose a major public health challenge. In this study, we develop a mathematical model to study the transmission dynamics of VL and TB co-infection by first analyzing the VL and TB sub-models separately. The dynamics of these sub-models and the full co-infection model are determined based on the reproduction number. When the associated reproduction number (