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Maia Martcheva1, Hisashi Inaba2
1Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Abstract:
Backward bifurcation is an important property of infectious disease models. A centre manifold method has been developed by Castillo-Chavez and Song for detecting the presence of backward bifurcation and deriving a necessary and sufficient condition for its occurrence in Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) models. In this paper, we extend this method to partial differential equation systems. First, we state a main theorem. Next we illustrate the application of the new method on a chronological age-structured Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) model with density-dependent recovery rate, an age-since-infection structured HIV/AIDS model with standard incidence and an age-since-infection structured cholera model with vaccination.
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