Population dynamics of killing parasites which reproduce in the host (Q760358)

In this paper the authors suggest a ''density model'' to study a parasitic infection in human hosts. Taking into account the density of an infection explicitly, its effects on host mortality, duration of infectious period and transmission rate, they rigorously derived a semistochastic model of partial differential equations. Results of local and global existence for this system of equations are given. They prove that nontrivial stationary distributions exist and give results of stability. At last they compare the results obtained with another model for a parasitic infection studied by \textit{R. M. May} and \textit{R. M. Anderson}, Nature 280, 455-461 (1979).