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Vibrio cholerae: Model Organism to Study Bacterial Pathogenesis - Interview
Published on: May 28, 2007
Global Hopf bifurcation of a cholera model with media coverage
1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an 710126, China.
Abstract:
We propose a model for cholera under the impact of delayed mass media, including human-to-human and environment-to-human transmission routes. First, we establish the extinction and uniform persistence of the disease with respect to the basic reproduction number. Then, we conduct a local and global Hopf bifurcation analysis by treating the delay as a bifurcation parameter. Finally, we carry out numerical simulations to demonstrate theoretical results. The impact of the media with the time delay is found to not influence the threshold dynamics of the model, but is a factor that induces periodic oscillations of the disease.
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