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Researchers at University of Naples target immunization
February 11th, 2009
"We study the global behavior of a non-linear susceptible-infectious-removed (SIR)-like epidemic model with a non-bilinear feedback mechanism, which describes the influence of information, and of information-related delays, on a vaccination campaign," scientists in Naples, Italy report. "We upgrade the stability analysis performed in d'Onofrio et al. [A. d'Onofrio, P. Manfredi, E. Salinelli, Vaccinating behavior, information, and the dynamics of SIR vaccine preventable diseases, Theor. Popul. Biol. 71 (2007) 301] and, at same time, give a special example of application of the geometric method for global stability, due to Li and Muldowney," wrote B. Buonomo and...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-02-11)
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