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Global results for an epidemic model with vaccination that exhibits backward bifurcation. (English) Zbl 1034.92025

Summary: Vaccination of both newborns and susceptibles is included in a transmission model for a disease that confers immunity. The interplay of the vaccination strategy together with the vaccine efficacy and waning is studied. In particular, it is shown that a backward bifurcation leading to bistability can occur. Under mild parameter constraints, compound matrices are used to show that each orbit limits to an equilibrium. In the case of bistability, this global result requires a novel approach since there is no compact absorbing set.

MSC:

92C60 Medical epidemiology
92D30 Epidemiology
34D23 Global stability of solutions to ordinary differential equations
34C23 Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations
34C60 Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models
37N25 Dynamical systems in biology
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