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Computational Modeling of Streptococcus Suis Dynamics via Stochastic Delay Differential Equations
1 Department of Mathematics, National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
2 Center for Research in Mathematics and Applications (CIMA), Institute for Advanced Studies and Research (IIFA), University of Évora, Rua Romão Ramalho, 59, Évora, 7000-671, Portugal
3 Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Lebanese American University, Beirut, 1102-2081, Lebanon
4 Department of Zoology, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, 51040, Pakistan
5 Department of Mathematics, Air University, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan
6 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, 31982, Saudi Arabia
7 Department of Physical Sciences, The University of Chenab, Gujrat, 50700, Pakistan
* Corresponding Authors: Ali Raza. Email: ,
; Emad Fadhal. Email:
(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advances in Mathematical Modeling: Numerical Approaches and Simulation for Computational Biology)
Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2025, 143(1), 449-476. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2025.061635
Received 29 November 2024; Accepted 05 February 2025; Issue published 11 April 2025
Abstract
Streptococcus suis (S. suis) is a major disease impacting pig farming globally. It can also be transferred to humans by eating raw pork. A comprehensive study was recently carried out to determine the indices through multiple geographic regions in China. Methods: The well-posed theorems were employed to conduct a thorough analysis of the model’s feasible features, including positivity, boundedness equilibria, reproduction number, and parameter sensitivity. Stochastic Euler, Runge Kutta, and Euler Maruyama are some of the numerical techniques used to replicate the behavior of the streptococcus suis infection in the pig population. However, the dynamic qualities of the suggested model cannot be restored using these techniques. Results: For the stochastic delay differential equations of the model, the non-standard finite difference approach in the sense of stochasticity is developed to avoid several problems such as negativity, unboundedness, inconsistency, and instability of the findings. Results from traditional stochastic methods either converge conditionally or diverge over time. The stochastic non-negative step size convergence nonstandard finite difference (NSFD) method unconditionally converges to the model’s true states. Conclusions: This study improves our understanding of the dynamics of streptococcus suis infection using versions of stochastic with delay approaches and opens up new avenues for the study of cognitive processes and neuronal analysis. The plotted interaction behaviour and new solution comparison profiles.Keywords
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The main key point to study is the structure-preserving and dynamical analysis of the Streptococcus suis disease model. The fundamental properties of the model like positivity, boundedness, and local and global stabilities are studied rigorously. The authors used well-known methods like Euler Maruyama, stochastic Euler, and stochastic Runge Kutta for the computational analysis and made a comparison analysis with the proposed method like nonstandard finite difference in the sense of stochastic. The Nonstandard Finite Difference (NSFD) method gives a guarantee of Structure-preserving properties of the model like positivity, boundedness, and dynamical consistency of the solution instead of other standard methods.
The paper is organized as follows: An overview of Streptococcus suis infection-like conditions and a thorough assessment of the literature is provided in Section 1. Building the delayed model and the ensuing mathematical analysis are the focus of Section 2. In Section 3, the local and global levels of the model’s stability, reproduction number, and equilibria are examined. The sensitivity analysis of the model’s parameters is covered in Section 4. The stochastic conceptualization phase is presented in Section 5. The numerical approach of the NSFD technique and numerical simulations and the presentation of the results are the explicit focus of Section 6. Final opinions provide a conclusive overview of the work under Section 7.
This section presents the delay model formulation of infection spread by pigs and humans. Four classifications were used to categorize the pig population: susceptible class

Figure 1: SIQR-SIR model diagram for people and pigs [13]
By
The pig model attribute can be expressed as follows:
This section examines the delay model feasible region, which carries biological significance as the suggested model takes into account. Consider every parameter and variable in the delay model is non-negative. Next, the model’s equilibria and the fundamental reproduction number are determined. Furthermore, we investigate each equilibrium at locally and globally stable.
The feasible region of the system (1)–(7) is shown
Theorem 1: The solution of the system (1)–(7) is positive in the feasible region.
Proof: Consider the system (1)–(7), we have
Hence, system (1)–(7) has a positive solution with the initial condition in the feasible region. □
Theorem 2: The solution of the model (1)–(7) is bounded in the feasible region.
Proof: The total number of people and pigs may be written as
Which is a linear differential equation
Using Grown’s inequality
3.2 Model Equilibria and Reproduction Number
This section includes two types of model equilibria for Streptococcus Suis Equilibrium.
Streptococcus Suis Endemic Equilibrium
The reproduction number is vastly essential in epidemiology. This determines the probability that the illness exists in the community or not. If the reproduction is less than one, disease can be prevented in the community; if the reproduction number is larger than one, disease exists in the community. Use the next-generation approach to calculate the reproduction number. Thus,
The largest eigenvalue of the matrix called the spectral radius or reproduction number at Streptococcus suis free equilibrium, follows as
We will demonstrate the following well-known result about local and global stability in both model equilibrium points. Consider the function as follows:
The Jacobian matrix has the following elements:
Theorem 3: The Streptococcus Suis Free Equilibrium
Proof: For stability at
Hence the streptococcus Suis free equilibrium of the given system (1)–(7) is stable in the sense of local if
Theorem 4: The Streptococcus Suis Endemic Equilibrium
Proof: Letting from (8), we get
For eigenvalue, consider
So, by the Routh-Hurwitz Criterion for a 2nd-degree polynomial, the coefficient of the characteristic equation is positive with the constraint
The stability of the Streptococcus Suis infection model is demonstrated by well-known outcomes in following global sense.
Theorem 5: The Streptococcus Suis Free Equilibrium
Proof: Define the Volterra Lyapunov function
This implies that
Theorem 6: The Streptococcus suis Endemic Equilibrium
Proof: Define the Volterra Lyapunov function
Given positive constants
If we choose
Theorem 7. The Streptococcus suis Free Equilibrium
Proof: Define the Volterra Lyapunov function
Thus, the system (1)–(7) is globally asymptotically stable at Streptococcus Suis Free Equilibrium. □
Theorem 8. The Streptococcus Suis Endemic Equilibrium
Proof: Define the Volterra Lyapunov function
For simplification, we choose
It can see that
This section examined the streptococcus suis model’s sensitivity. Sensity analysis is a study of how various factors related to input uncertainty may be attributed to the inconsistency of a mathematical model’s output outcomes. We calculate the sensitivity of the reproduction number concerning the model’s parameter. This technique provided the most sensitive measure for the reproduction number, which helped the infection spread. The basic format for sensitivity is as follows:
where
The values of sensitivity and signs of the model’s parameters are presented in Table 1.

The most significant contributing aspect to the viral transmission phenomenon is human morality (

Figure 2: Analysis of the sensitive indices of reproduction number
5 Stochastic Formulation Phase 1
The Stochastic delayed differential equations (SDDEs) of the streptococcus suis model (1)–(7) may be represented by the vector

Therefore,
By studying the relevant academic literature, the Euler Maruyama approach is employed to simulate the results of Eq. (10). Following is an outline of the data that is shown in Table 2.
where the discretization parameter is denoted by
5.1 Stochastic Formulation Phase 2
Create an uncertainty parameter for the dynamical system (1)–(7) by including Brownian motion.
where
5.2 Fundamental Properties of the Stochastic Model
This part covers the analysis of the positivity and boundedness properties of the system (11)–(17).
Let us consider the vector as follows:
and norm
And
Furthermore, let
As
And
If
where T is Transportation.
Theorem 9 Shows that for the system (11)–(17) and any given initial conditions
Proof. Given that all model parameters satisfy the local Lipschitz limitations. Thus, according to Ito’s formula, the provided model has a positive solution locally on the interval
Let
where we set
The inequality states that
If this condition fails to be satisfied, then there exist values T > 0 and
Define a
Define a
By using Ito’s formula (25), we calculate
For simplify, we assume
where
where
Set
For each element
Next, we obtain
The indicator function is denoted as
As desired.
Again, by using Ito’s formula (26), we calculate
For simplify, we assume
where
where
Hence,
Next, we obtain
The indicator function is denoted as
As desired. □
Theorem 10. If the spectral radius v and the variance
Proof: Let’s examine the initial data
Applying Ito’s lemma to the function f(
Notice that,
If
If
6 Stochastic Nonstandard Finite Difference Scheme
The NSFD method is used in this analysis to address the stochastic delay differential equations regulating Streptococcus suis dynamics. The discrete approximations are very carefully selected to keep stability and be able to precisely model the turbulent behavior of the system. This ensures that the theoretical analysis is kept consistent and that the numerical solutions stay physically significant. For (11)–(17), the stochastic non-standard finite difference scheme has the following equation:
where
Assuming
The Jacobian matrix consists of the following elements:
Theorem 11. For all values of
Proof. The Jacobian matrix at the streptococcus suis-free equilibrium, denoted as
Therefore,
Using the definition of
Theorem 12. For all values of
Proof. The Jacobian matrix at the streptococcus suis- endemic equilibrium, denoted as
So, the eigenvalues of the Jacobian at
Lemma. For the quadratic equation
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
This section examines the characteristics of the graphs representing the number of infected pig population using the Euler Maruyama, stochastic Euler, and stochastic Runge Kutta schemes, in comparison to the NSFD scheme, across various step sizes and parameters values (See Table 3).

Fig. 3a,b provides a comparison between the infected class of the Stochastic NSFD and the Euler Maryama Method. Fig. 3a shows convergence for both approaches at ℎ = 0.01. When the step size was raised to ℎ = 1.0, the Euler Maryama Method diverged whereas the Stochastic NSFD Method remained convergent, as shown in Fig. 3b. Similarly, Fig. 3c,d compares the infected class of the Stochastic NSFD and the Stochastic Euler Method. At ℎ = 0.01, both techniques converged in Fig. 3c. However, when the step size was increased to ℎ = 1.0, the Stochastic Euler Method diverged, while the Stochastic NSFD method-maintained convergence, as shown in Fig. 3d. Similarly, Fig. 3e,f compares the infected class of the Stochastic NSFD and Stochastic RK Method. At ℎ = 0.01, both methods converged, as shown in Fig. 3e. However, when the step size increased to ℎ = 2.0, the Stochastic RK Method diverged, while the Stochastic NSFD method continued to converge, as shown in Fig. 3f. Fig. 4a shows how delay affects the model’s susceptible class at different ???? values (0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5). Fig. 4b shows the effect of delay on the infected class of the model at various values ???? = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5, indicating a gradual decline in disease from the infected class over time. Finally, Fig. 5 shows the behavior of delay on the reproduction number of the model.

Figure 3: Comparison graph of computational methods at the Streptococcus Suis endemic equilibrium of the model (a) The comparison behavior of the infected pig population through Euler Maruyama and stochastic NSFD methods at

Figure 4: Time-Plot with the time delay on susceptible and infected population. (a) The effect of different values of delay on susceptible pig population (b) The effect of different values of delay on infected pig population

Figure 5: Time plot of the effect of time delay
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the mathematical analysis, including trustworthy delay techniques, of the delayed model for streptococcus suis infection. Subpopulations are classified by the model into four categories: susceptible class
To fully capture the real-world complexities, there is a need to develop a model without the assumption of disease transmissibility and parameter estimation. Moreover, validation based on data is needed to enhance the reliability of the model.
Acknowledgement: Not applicable.
Funding Statement: This work was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research, Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia [KFU250259].
Author Contributions: Umar Shafique, Ali Raza, Dumitru Baleanu, Khadija Nasir, Muhammad Naveed, Abu Bakar Siddique and Emad Fadhal reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript. All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Availability of Data and Materials: All the data used and analyzed is available in the manuscript.
Ethics Approval: Not applicable.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest to report regarding the present study.
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