Conditions for extinction and ergodicity of a stochastic Mycobacterium tuberculosis model with Markov switching

Abstract

This paper is concerned with a stochastic Mycobacterium tuberculosis model, which is perturbed by both white noise and colored noise. First, we prove that the stochastic model has a unique global positive solution. Second, we derive an important condition $ R_0^* $ depending on environmental noise for this stochastic model. We construct an appropriate Lyapunov function, and show that the model possesses a unique ergodic stationary distribution when $ R_0^* < 0 $, in other words, it indicates the long-term persistence of the disease. Finally, we investigate the related conditions of extinction.

Keywords

• mycobacterium tuberculosis
• markov switching
• stationary distribution
• extinction