This paper considers an SIRS epidemic model that incorporates constant immigrati on rate, a general population size dependent contact rate and proportional tran sfer rate from the infective class to susceptible class...This paper considers an SIRS epidemic model that incorporates constant immigrati on rate, a general population size dependent contact rate and proportional tran sfer rate from the infective class to susceptible class.A threshold parameter σ is identified. If σ≤1, the disease free equilibrium is globally stab le. If σ>1, a unique endemic equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable. For two important special cases of mass action incidence and standard incidence, global stability of the endemic equilibrium is proved provided the threshold is larger than unity. Some previous results are extended and improved.展开更多
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文摘This paper considers an SIRS epidemic model that incorporates constant immigrati on rate, a general population size dependent contact rate and proportional tran sfer rate from the infective class to susceptible class.A threshold parameter σ is identified. If σ≤1, the disease free equilibrium is globally stab le. If σ>1, a unique endemic equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable. For two important special cases of mass action incidence and standard incidence, global stability of the endemic equilibrium is proved provided the threshold is larger than unity. Some previous results are extended and improved.