Abstract
In this paper we study the use of a pulse vaccination strategy to eradicate infectious diseases modelable by epidemic model having gamma distributed infectious and latent time. We demonstrate the global asymptotic stability of the eradication solution for a general model in which co-presence of a continuous vaccination strategy, the non-permanent duration of the immunization and the emerging problem of the vaccine failures are considered.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 181-187 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Applied Mathematics and Computation |
Volume | 151 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 30 2004 |
Keywords
- Deterministic epidemic models
- Gamma distributions
- Impulsive differential equations
- Stability theory
- Vaccinations
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Applied Mathematics
- Computational Mathematics
- Numerical Analysis