Abstract: Malaria and Typhoid fever co-infection is the most endemic disease and a major public health problem in many tropical developing countries. Both diseases share similar transmission factor and often have the similar symptom. Because of the high prevalence of malaria and typhoid fever in these developing countries, co-infections are common. In addition to true co-infection of malaria and typhoid fever, the major challenges on managing controlling these diseases are false diagnoses due to similar signs and symptoms and false positive results in testing methods. In this study, we have formulated a mathematical model based on a system of non-linear first order ordinary differential equations to study the dynamics of the co-infection dynamics of plasmodium falciparum and typhoid.....
Keywords: Typhoid Fever, Malaria, Plasmodium Falciparum, Co-Infection, Reproduction Number, Sensitivity Analysis.
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