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A threshold result for an epidemiological model.

X Lin·P van den Driessche
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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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X Lin, P van den Driessche. 1992. A threshold result for an epidemiological model.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1640184/

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