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2010, 7(4): 837-850. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2010.7.837

## Global stability of an $SIR$ epidemic model with delay and general nonlinear incidence

 1 Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Received  March 2010 Revised  July 2010 Published  October 2010

An SIR model with distributed delay and a general incidence function is studied. Conditions are given under which the system exhibits threshold behaviour: the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable if R0<1 and globally attracting if R0=1; if R0>1, then the unique endemic equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable. The global stability proofs use a Lyapunov functional and do not require uniform persistence to be shown a priori. It is shown that the given conditions are satisfied by several common forms of the incidence function.
Citation: C. Connell McCluskey. Global stability of an $SIR$ epidemic model with delay and general nonlinear incidence. Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering, 2010, 7 (4) : 837-850. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2010.7.837
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