On a nonautonomous SEIRS model in epidemiology

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2537-2559

  Zhang, Tailei ^a   Teng, Zhidong ^a  

^a XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Disease; Extinction; Nonautonomous SEIRS epidemic model; Permanence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; STATISTICS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 35648967095     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-007-9231-z     Document Type: Article

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