On the backward bifurcation of a vaccination model with nonlinear incidence

Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-46

  Buonomo, B ^a   Lacitignola, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backward bifurcation; Disease control; Epidemic models; Nonlinear incidence; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952355338     PISSN: 13925113     EISSN: 23358963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15388/na.16.1.14113     Document Type: Article

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