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1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, PR China.
Abstract:
In this paper, we consider a delayed SEIRS model with pulse vaccination and varying total population size. The basic reproduction number R0 is derived, and it is shown that the disease-free periodic solution is globally attractive if R0 < 1, while the disease is uniformly persistent when R0 > 1. Our results really improve the results by Gao et al. (2007) [8], where they left the open problem of finding a sharp threshold which determines the eradication and uniform persistence. Numerical simulations are conducted to illustrate the analytical results and explore the influences of pulse vaccination and time delay on the spread of the disease. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first work to have the sharp threshold dynamics for impulsive epidemic models with the delay in the infected compartments.
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