Dynamics of a periodic tick-borne disease model with co-feeding and multiple patches (Q2659051)

This paper studied a tick-borne model with the consideration of seasonal climate impacts, host movement as well as the co-feeding transmission route. The global dynamics of tick population in each patch can be characterized by the net reproduction numbers, which can guarantee that tick-free equilibrium and the unique \(\omega\)-periodic solution with n patches are globally asymptotically stable, respectively. Furthermore, by applying the theory of monotone dynamics systems, the global dynamics of tick-borne model is investigated based on the basic reproduction number of tick-borne disease. At last, numerical simulations are performed to show that rodent migration can promote the disease spreading among all patches.