On the formulation of epidemic models (an appraisal of Kermack and McKendrick).
The aim of this paper is to show that a large class of epidemic models, with both demography and non-permanent immunity incorporated in a rather general manner, can be mathematically formulated as a scalar renewal equation for the force of infection.
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy. w.f.degraaf@uu.nl
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D019353:Endemic Diseases; D058872:Epidemics; D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics