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This work is concerned with the estimation a Neissera meningitidis dynamics according to a Susceptible-Carrier-Infectious-Recovered-Hospitalized (SCIRH) model extending a recent SCIR model studied in the literature. The extension consists in taking into consideration the fact that infectious individuals are not systematically reported and followed by hospitals. Indeed, for different reasons encountered especially in sub-Saharan Africa, people may experience difficulties to go to the hospital (for example disadvantaged status, cultural habits and unavailability of hospital centers in the neighborhood). We also consider the relaxing hypothesis that the size of the total population is unknown and only the size in compartment H is known by following patients. Based on a theoretical result stated and proved first, we propose an exponentially convergent observer for the SCIRH model. We additionally establish that the convergence of the above observer can be substantially improved if systematic screening campaigns and a patchy structure are adopted. Precisely, a new observer is constructed using new stability criteria that we state and prove for the class n-Metzler matrices introduced in the current work. For each of the two observers given here, numerical simulations are carried out in order to concretely appreciate their convergence. As theoretically announced, both of the observers converge exponentially with the respective rates 0.0146298 and 0.5011. Hence, the improvements due to screening and patchy structure multiply the initial exponential convergence rate by 34.252006.
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Fotsa-Mbogne, D.J. Improvement of disease dynamics monitoring through systematic screening and patchy structure: application to Neissera Meningitidis. Comp. Appl. Math. 40, 32 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40314-021-01417-6
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