American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

2016, 13(1): 209-225. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2016.13.209

Global analysis on a class of multi-group SEIR model with latency and relapse

 1 School of Mathematical Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China 2 Department of Mathematics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

Received  March 2015 Revised  May 2015 Published  October 2015

In this paper, we investigate the global dynamics of a multi-group SEIR epidemic model, allowing heterogeneity of the host population, delay in latency and delay due to relapse distribution for the human population. Our results indicate that when certain restrictions on nonlinear growth rate and incidence are fulfilled, the basic reproduction number $\mathfrak{R}_0$ plays the key role of a global threshold parameter in the sense that the long-time behaviors of the model depend only on $\mathfrak{R}_0$. The proofs of the main results utilize the persistence theory in dynamical systems, Lyapunov functionals guided by graph-theoretical approach.
Citation: Jinliang Wang, Hongying Shu. Global analysis on a class of multi-group SEIR model with latency and relapse. Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering, 2016, 13 (1) : 209-225. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2016.13.209
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References:
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Biosci. Eng., 4 (2007), 205. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2007.4.205. Google Scholar [33] P. van den Driessche and X. Zou, Modeling relapse in infectious diseases,, Math. Biosci., 207 (2007), 89. doi: 10.1016/j.mbs.2006.09.017. Google Scholar [34] K. E. VanLandingham, H. B. Marsteller, G. W. Ross and F. G. Hayden, Relapse of herpes simplex encephalitis after conventional acyclovir therapy,, J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 259 (1988), 1051. Google Scholar [35] J. Wang, J. Pang and X. Liu, Modelling diseases with relapse and nonlinear incidence of infection: a multi-group epidemic model,, J. Biol. Dyn., 8 (2014), 99. doi: 10.1080/17513758.2014.912682. Google Scholar [36] J. Wang, J. Zu, X. Liu, G. Huang and J. Zhang, Global dynamics of a multi-group epidemic model with general relapse distribution and nonlinear incidence rate,, J. Biol. Syst., 20 (2012), 235. doi: 10.1142/S021833901250009X. Google Scholar [37] Z. Zhao, L. Chen and X. Song, Impulsive vaccination of SEIR epidemic model with time delay and nonlinear incidence rate,, Math. Comput. Simul., 79 (2008), 500. doi: 10.1016/j.matcom.2008.02.007. Google Scholar
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