Article ID: | iaor20117444 |
Volume: | 218 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 280 |
End Page Number: | 286 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2011 |
Journal: | Applied Mathematics and Computation |
Authors: | Sun Ruoyan, Shi Junping |
Keywords: | population, stability, epidemiological models |
In this paper, we introduce a basic reproduction number for a multigroup SEIR model with nonlinear incidence of infection and nonlinear removal functions between compartments. Then, we establish that global dynamics are completely determined by the basic reproduction number