Backward bifurcation of an epidemic model with saturated treatment function

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 348, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 433-443

  Zhang, Xu ^a,b   Liu, Xianning ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Backward bifurcation; Global behavior; Saturated treatment function; SIR

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249102874     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: 10960813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.07.042     Document Type: Article

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