Browsing Department of Mathematics by Author "Bhunu, Claver P."

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    • Assessing the impact of drug resistance on the transmission dynamics of Typhoid fever. 

      Mushayabasa, Steady; Bhunu, Claver P.; Ngarakana-Gwasira, Ethel T. (Hindawi, 2013-05-20)
      Typhoid fever continues to be a major public health problem in the developing world. Antibiotic therapy has been the main stay of treating typhoid fever for decades. The emergence of drug-resistant typhoid strain in the ...

    • Assessing the role of climate change in Malaria transmission in Africa. 

      Ngarakana-Gwasira, Ethel T.; Bhunu, Claver P.; Masocha, Mhosisi; Mashonjowa, Emmanuel (HINDAWI, 2016-02-23)
      The sensitivity of vector borne diseases like malaria to climate continues to raise considerable concern over the implications of climate change on future disease dynamics. The problem of malaria vectors shifting from their ...

    • Modeling gonorrhea and HIV co-interaction. 

      Mushayabasa, Steady; Tchuenche, J.M.; Bhunu, Claver P.; Ngarakana-Gwasira, Ethel T. (Elsevier, 2010-09-14)
      A mathematical model was designed to explore the co-interaction of gonorrhea and HIV in the presence of antiretroviral therapy and gonorrhea treatment. Qualitative and comprehensive mathematical techniques have been used ...

    • Transmission dynamics of schistosomiasis in Zimbabwe: A mathematical and GIS approach. 

      Ngarakana-Gwasira, Ethel T.; Bhunu, Claver P.; Masocha, Mhosisi; Mashonjowa, Emmanuel (Elsevier, 2015-11-15)
      Temperature and presence of water bodies are known to influence the transmission dynamics of schistosomiasis. In this work, effects of water bodies (taken in context of rainfall patterns)and temperature from 1950 to 2000 ...