title: A threshold result for an epidemiological model.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: van den Driessche
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility / Q000453:epidemiology; D015994:Incidence; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical