Influence of latent period and nonlinear incidence rate on the dynamics of sirs epidemiological models

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 195-211

  Yang, Yu ^a   Xiao, Dongmei ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gobal stable; Hopf bifurcation; Latent period; Nonlinear incidence rate; SIRS model

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549112764     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.195     Document Type: Article

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