The effects of population dispersal and pulse vaccination on disease control

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 52, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1591-1604

  Yang, Youping ^a   Xiao, Yanni ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Disease control; Disease free periodic solution; Population dispersal; Pulse vaccination

Indexed keywords

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMPARISON THEOREM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC MODELS; FLOQUET THEORY; IMPULSIVE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; NONAUTONOMOUS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PULSE VACCINATION; SPECTRAL RADII; THRESHOLD PARAMETERS; UNIFORM PERSISTENCE;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DISEASES; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISEASE CONTROL;

EID: 77956009565     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcm.2010.06.024     Document Type: Article

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