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The effect of local prevention in an SIS model with diffusion
The effect of spatially partial prevention of infectious disease is
considered as an application of population models in inhomogeneous
environments. The area is divided into two
ractangles, and the local contact rate between infectives and susceptibles is
sufficiently reduced in one rectangle.
The dynamics of the infection considered here is that described by an SIS model
with diffusion. Then the problem can be reduced to a Fisher type equation,
which has been fully studied by many authors, under some conditions.
The steady states of the linearized
equation are considered, and a Nagylaki type result for predicting
whether the infection will become extinct over time or not is obtained. This
result leads to some necessary conditions for the extinction of the
infection.