Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2009

Abstract

Mathematical models are used to determine if infection wave fronts could occur by traveling geographically in a loop around a region or continent. These infection wave fronts arise by Hopf bifurcation for some spatial models for infectious disease transmission with distributed-contacts. Periodic traveling waves are shown to exist for the spatial analog of the SIRS endemic model, in which the temporary immunity is described by a delay, but they do not exist in a similar spatial SIRS endemic model without a delay. Specifically, we found that the ratio of the delay ω in the recovered class and the average infectious period1/γ must be sufficiently large for Hopf bifurcation to occur.

Comments

NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Mathematical and Computer Modelling. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 49, 1-2, (January 2009) DOI# 10.1016/j.mcm.2008.07.033

DOI

10.1016/j.mcm.2008.07.033

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