Reproduction numbers and sub-threshold endemic equilibria for compartmental models of disease transmission

2002/11/01 by P. van den Driessche, James Watmough · 10,017 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Mathematics · Medicine · #Applied mathematics #Basic reproduction number #Biology #COVID-19 epidemiological studies #Computer science #Demography #Differential equation #Disease #Disease transmission #Ecology #Endemic disease #Engineering #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Manifold (fluid mechanics) #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models #Mathematical economics #Mathematics #Ordinary differential equation #Physics #Pure mathematics #Reproduction #Simple (philosophy) #Stability (learning theory) #Stability theory #Transmission (telecommunications)

paper · doi:10.1016/s0025-5564(02)00108-6

published in Mathematical Biosciences 180(1-2), 29-48 (Elsevier BV)

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