Dynamical behavior of an epidemic model with a nonlinear incidence rate

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 135-163

  Ruan, Shigui ^a   Wang, Wendi ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Epidemic; Global analysis; Limit cycle; Nonlinear incidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037429355     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0396(02)00089-X     Document Type: Article

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