A threshold result for an epidemiological model.
A threshold parameter R0 is identified for an SIRS epidemiological model which has nonlinear incidence and a distributed delay for transfer out of the removed class. For R0 less than 1, the disease free equilibrium is proved to be the global attractor for all solutions.
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Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
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D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility / Q000453:epidemiology; D015994:Incidence; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical