Epidemic threshold conditions for seasonally forced SEIR models

Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 161-172

  Ma, Junling ^a   Ma, Zhien ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Epidemic models; Seasonal forcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748131158     PISSN: 15471063     EISSN: 15510018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2006.3.161     Document Type: Article

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