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A note on epidemic models with infective immigrants and vaccination. (English) Zbl 1118.34081

The author studies an SVIS epidemic model with infective immigrants
\[ \begin{aligned} S^{\prime}=\Lambda+(1-p)A- {\beta S I}{N}-(\mu+\phi)S+\gamma I+\theta V,\\ V^{\prime}=\phi S- {\sigma \beta V I}{N}-(\mu+\theta)V,\\ I^{\prime}=pA+ {\beta S I}{N}+ {\sigma \beta V I}{N}-(\mu+\gamma)I\end{aligned} \]
with \(S(t)+V(t)+I(t)=N=K:=\frac{A+\Lambda}{\mu}\) and an SVIR epidemic model with infective immigrants
\[ \begin{aligned} S^{\prime}=\Lambda+(1-p)A- {\beta S I}{N}-(\mu+\phi)S+\theta V,\\ V^{\prime}=\phi S- {\sigma \beta V I}{N}-(\mu+\theta)V,\\ I^{\prime}=pA+ {\beta S I}{N}+ {\sigma \beta V I}{N}-(\mu+\gamma)I,\\ R^{\prime}=\gamma I-\mu R \end{aligned} \]
with \(S(t)+V(t)+I(t)+R(t)=K\), where \(K=\frac{A+\Lambda}{\mu}\), \( S,I,R, V\) are susceptibles, infectives, removed and vaccinated, respectively. The effects of immigration and vaccination on disease dynamics of the above two models are explored. Conditions for the existence of multiple endemic steady states and a fold bifurcation are also addressed.

MSC:

34K60 Qualitative investigation and simulation of models involving functional-differential equations
34K18 Bifurcation theory of functional-differential equations
92D30 Epidemiology