backward bifurcation of an epidemic model with infectious force in infected and immune period and treatment落后与传染性流行病模型的分岔的力量感染和免疫和治疗.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2012, Article ID 647853, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2012/647853 Research Article Backward Bifurcation of an Epidemic Model with Infectious Force in Infected and Immune Period and Treatment Yakui Xue and Junfeng Wang Department of Mathematics, North University of China, Shanxi Taiyuan 030051, China Correspondence should be addressed to Yakui Xue, xyk5152@163.com Received 18 January 2012; Accepted 27 May 2012 Academic Editor: Malisa R. Zizovic Copyright q 2012 Y. Xue and J. Wang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. An epidemic model with infectious force in infected and immune period and treatment rate of infectious individuals is proposed to understand the effect of the capacity for treatment of infective on the disease spread. It is assumed that treatment rate is proportional to the number of infective below the capacity and is constant when the number of infective is greater than the capacity. It is proved that the existence and stability of equilibria for the model is not only related to the basic reproduction number but also the capacity for treatment of infective. It is found that a backward bifurcation occurs if the capacity is small. It is also found that there exist bistable endemic equilibria if the capacity is low. 1. Introduction Recently, mathematical models describing the dynamics of human infectious diseases have played an important role in the disease control in epidemiology. Researchers have proposed many epidemic models to understand the mechanism of disease transmission. We assume that a susceptible individual first goes through a latent period after infectio