Permanence and extinction for a nonautonomous SEIRS epidemic model

In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of a nonautonomous SEIRS epidemic model. We obtain new sufficient conditions for the permanence (uniform persistence) and extinction of infectious population of the model. By numerical examples we show that there are cases such that our results improve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Kuniya, T., Nakata, Y.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM)
Repositorio:BIRD. BCAM's Institutional Repository Data
OAI Identifier:oai:bird.bcamath.org:20.500.11824/408
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11824/408
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Basic reproduction number
Extinction
Nonautonomous system
Permanence
SEIRS epidemic model
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Sumario:In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of a nonautonomous SEIRS epidemic model. We obtain new sufficient conditions for the permanence (uniform persistence) and extinction of infectious population of the model. By numerical examples we show that there are cases such that our results improve the previous results obtained in [T. Zhang, Z. Teng, On a nonautonomous SEIRS model in epidemiology, Bull. Math. Bio. 69 (2007) 2537-2559]. We discuss a relation between our results and open questions proposed in the paper.