1. The effect of constant and pulse vaccination on an SIR epidemic model with infectious period
- Author
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Li Shuping, Shuzhen Chen, Pei Yongzhen, and Li Changguo
- Subjects
education.field_of_study ,Disease Eradication ,business.industry ,Applied Mathematics ,Population ,macromolecular substances ,Disease ,Infectious period ,Vaccination ,Pulse vaccination ,Modelling and Simulation ,Modeling and Simulation ,Medicine ,education ,Constant (mathematics) ,Epidemic model ,business ,Demography - Abstract
In this paper, we investigate two delayed SIR models with vaccination and a generalized nonlinear incidence and obtain sufficient conditions for eradication and permanence of the disease, respectively. Our results indicate that a larger vaccination rate will lead to the eradication of a disease. Furthermore, theoretical results show that constant vaccination strategy can lead to disease eradication at relatively low values of vaccination than pulse vaccination strategy, which is different from the results in [1]. In addition, numerical simulations indicate that pulse vaccination strategy or a longer infectious period will make a larger fraction of population infected by disease.
- Published
- 2011