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Xiaomei Feng1, Zhidong Teng, Fengqin Zhang
1College of Mathematics and System Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China. xiaomei_0529@126.com.
Abstract:
A multi-group model is proposed to describe a general relapse phenomenon of infectious diseases in heterogeneous populations. In each group, the population is divided into susceptible, exposed, infectious, and recovered subclasses. A general nonlinear incidence rate is used in the model. The results show that the global dynamics are completely determined by the basic reproduction number R0. In particular, a matrix-theoretic method is used to prove the global stability of the disease-free equilibrium when R0 ≤ 1, while a new combinatorial identity (Theorem 3.3 in Shuai and van den Driessche) in graph theory is applied to prove the global stability of the endemic equilibrium when R0 > 1. We would like to mention that by applying the new combinatorial identity, a graph of 3n (or 2n+m) vertices can be converted into a graph of n vertices in order to deal with the global stability of the endemic equilibrium in this paper.
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