Threshold behaviour of a SIR epidemic model with age structure and immigration

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-27

  Franceschetti, Andrea ^a   Pugliese, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age structured epidemic model; Below replacement fertility; Fixed points of positive operators; Immigration; Quasi threshold theorem

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FERTILITY; HUMAN; ITALY; MATHEMATICS; MIGRATION; POPULATION GROWTH; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICS; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FERTILITY; HUMANS; ITALY; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION GROWTH; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42149107520     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: 14321416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-007-0143-1     Document Type: Article

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