Nowadays, the mathematical modeling of infectious diseases is a big trend worldwide. The mathematical models help us to forecast future outbreaks of diseases in the presence of present data. In this article, we represent a model of the transmission of Chlamydia in the United States by using data from 1989 to 2019. In the formulation of the model, we used integer and fractional derivatives. Several graphs are plotted for the various possible cases of the given parameters. The aim of this paper is to justify how the mathematical models in terms of fractional derivatives have more degree of freedom to explore disease dynamics for a particular data set and capture memory effects. The separate parameter estimation for each value of the fractional order increases the novelty of this work. The use of a real-data set of Chlamydia in the United States makes this study more visible and important to the literature.
Keywords: Caputo fractional derivative; Chlamydia; Data-fitting; Mathematical model; Numerical method.
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