Qualitative study of a quarantine/isolation model with multiple disease stages

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 218, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1941-1961

  Safi, Mohammad A ^a   Gumel, Abba B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equilibria; Gamma distribution; Quarantine isolation; Reproduction number; Stability

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE SOJOURN TIME; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CUMULATIVE NUMBER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE-FREE EQUILIBRIUM; ENDEMIC EQUILIBRIUM; EQUILIBRIA; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; INFECTIOUS PERIOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; QUARANTINE/ISOLATION; REPRODUCTION NUMBER; RIGOROUS ANALYSIS; TIME-PERIODS;

DISEASE CONTROL; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DISEASES;

EID: 80052267390     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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