title: Global analysis of an epidemic model with nonmonotone incidence rate.
abstract: In this paper we study an epidemic model with nonmonotonic incidence rate, which describes the psychological effect of certain serious diseases on the community when the number of infectives is getting larger. By carrying out a global analysis of the model and studying the stability of the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium, we show that either the number of infective individuals tends to zero as time evolves or the disease persists.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China. xiaodm@sjtu.edu.cn
authors.forename: Dongmei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Shigui
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ruan
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D008433:Mathematics; D015233:Models, Statistical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics