Backward bifurcation of an epidemic model with standard incidence rate and treatment rate

Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2302-2312

  Hu, Zhixing ^a   Liu, Sheng ^b   Wang, Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Backward bifurcation; Epidemic model; Standard incidence rate; Treatment

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; STANDARDS;

BACKWARD BIFURCATION; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BI-STABLE; DISEASE SPREADING; EPIDEMIC MODEL; EPIDEMIC MODELS; EXISTENCE AND STABILITY; INCIDENCE RATE; STANDARD INCIDENCE RATE; TREATMENT; TREATMENT RATE;

HEALTH;

EID: 48249128675     PISSN: 14681218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2007.08.009     Document Type: Article

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