Research Article

Stability Analysis and Optimal Control of a Vector-Borne Disease with Nonlinear Incidence

Table 2

Sensitivity indices of to parameters for the model, evaluated at the parameter values given in Table 1.

Parameter Description Sensitivity index

Rate of biting of a host by mosquito 1.97493
Loss of immunity −0.999977
Probability of transmission from mosquitoes to host 0.987467
Probability of transmission from host to mosquitoes 0.987467
Probability of transmission from infectious human to susceptible human 0.0125332
Recruitment rate of susceptible hosts 1
Recruitment rate of susceptible mosquitoes 0.987467
Death rate of mosquitoes −1.97493
Death rate of hosts −1.00002