Existence of traveling wave solutions for cholera model (Q1722333)

Summary: To investigate the spreading speed of cholera, \textit{C. T. Codeço}'s cholera model [``Endemic and epidemic dynamics of cholera: the role of the aquatic reservoir'', BMC Infect. Dis. 1, No. 1, 1--14 (2001; \url{doi:10.1186/1471-2334-1-1})] is developed by a reaction-diffusion model that incorporates both indirect environment-to-human and direct human-to-human transmissions and the pathogen diffusion. The two transmission incidences are supposed to be saturated with infective density and pathogen density. The basic reproduction number \(R_0\) is defined and the formula for minimal wave speed \(c^*\) is given. It is proved by shooting method that there exists a traveling wave solution with speed \(c\) for cholera model if and only if \(c \geq c^*\).