Diffusion epidemic models with incubation and crisscross dynamics

Math Biosci. 1995 Jul-Aug;128(1-2):131-55. doi: 10.1016/0025-5564(94)00070-g.

Abstract

A diffusion age-structured epidemic model is analyzed. The model describes an epidemic in a host-vector two-population system. Each population is diffusing in a spatial region. Each population is divided into susceptible, incubating, and infectious subclasses. The incubating and infectious subclasses in each population are determined by a structure variable corresponding to age since infection. The model consists of a system of nonlinear partial differential equations with crisscross dynamics. The existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic behavior of solutions are analyzed.

MeSH terms

  • Chagas Disease / epidemiology
  • Chagas Disease / transmission
  • Epidemiologic Methods*
  • Humans
  • Malaria / epidemiology
  • Malaria / transmission
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Population Dynamics*