Analysis of an SEIRS epidemic model with two delays

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 240-260

  Cooke, K L ^a   Van Den Driessche, P ^b  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delay equation; Epidemic model; Epidemic threshold; Integro differential equation

Indexed keywords

INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MATHEMATICS; NEWBORN; STATISTICS; TIME;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030318519     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: 14321416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002850050051     Document Type: Article

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