Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4633494 | Applied Mathematics and Computation | 2009 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
A nonautonomous SIRS epidemic model with distributed delay is investigated. Two new threshold values, Râ and Râ are derived. The model is permanent as Râ>1 and Râ<1 implies the extinction of the disease. Using the Liapunov functional method, global behavior of the model is studied.
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Authors
Tailei Zhang, Junli Liu, Zhidong Teng,