A threshold result for an epidemiological model

✍ Scribed by Xiaodong Lin; P. Driessche

• Book ID: 104652338
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 397 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0303-6812
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00175611

✦ Synopsis

A threshold parameter R0 is identified for an SIRS epidemiological model which has nonlinear incidence and a distributed delay for transfer out of the removed class. For R0 less than 1, the disease free equilibrium is proved to be the global attractor for all solutions.