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December 2017, 22(10): 3797-3820. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2017191

Threshold dynamics of a reaction-diffusion epidemic model with stage structure

Liang Zhang and Zhi-Cheng Wang ^,

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, and Key Laboratory of Applied Mathematics and Complex Systems of Gansu province, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China

* Corresponding author

Received December 2016 Revised May 2017 Published July 2017

A time-delayed reaction-diffusion epidemic model with stage structure and spatial heterogeneity is investigated, which describes the dynamics of disease spread only proceeding in the adult population. We establish the basic reproduction number $\mathcal{R}_0$ for the model system, which gives the threshold dynamics in the sense that the disease will die out if $\mathcal{R}_0＜1$ and the disease will be uniformly persistent if $\mathcal{R}_0>1.$ Furthermore, it is shown that there is at least one positive steady state when $\mathcal{R}_0>1.$ Finally, in terms of general birth function for adult individuals, through introducing two numbers $\check{\mathcal{R}}_0$ and $\hat{\mathcal{R}}_0$, we establish sufficient conditions for the persistence and global extinction of the disease, respectively.

Keywords: Stage structure, spatial heterogeneity, basic reproduction number, persistence and extinction.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 35K57, 35B35, 35B40, 92D25, 92D30.

Citation: Liang Zhang, Zhi-Cheng Wang. Threshold dynamics of a reaction-diffusion epidemic model with stage structure. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2017, 22 (10) : 3797-3820. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2017191

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[3]	L. Burlando, Monotonicity of spectral radius for positive operators on ordered Banach spaces, Arch. Math., 56 (1991), 49-57. doi: 10.1007/BF01190081.
[4]	R. S. Cantrell and C. Cosner Spatial Ecology via Reaction-Diffusion Equations, UK: John Wiley and Sons Ltd. , 2003. doi: 10.1002/0470871296.
[5]	V. Capasso, Global solution for a diffusive nonlinear deterministic epidemic model, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 35 (1978), 274-284. doi: 10.1137/0135022.
[6]	D. Daners and P. Koch Medina, Abstract Evolution Equations, Periodic Problems and Applications, Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series, 279. Longman, Harlow, UK, 1992.
[7]	O. Diekmann, J. A. P. Heesterbeek and J. A. J. Metz, On the deinition and the computation of the basic production ratio $\mathcal{R}_0$ in the models for infectious disease in heterogeneous population, J. Math. Biol., 28 (1990), 365-382. doi: 10.1007/BF00178324.
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[10]	I. Gudelj and K. A. J. White, The effects of spatial movement and group interactions on disease dynamics of social animals, Bull. Math. Biol., 66 (2004), 91-108. doi: 10.1016/S0092-8240(03)00075-2.
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[12]	J. K. Hale, Asymptotic Behavior of Dissipative Systems (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 25), American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1988.
[13]	D. Henry, Geometric Theory of Semilinear Parabolic Equations, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 840, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1981.
[14]	G. Huang, Y. Takeuchi, W. Ma and D. Wei, Global stability for delay SIR and SEIR epidemic models with nonlinear incidence rate, Bull. Math. Biol., 72 (2010), 1192-1207. doi: 10.1007/s11538-009-9487-6.
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[16]	D. Le, Dissipativity and global attractors for a class of quasilinear parabolic systems, Commun. Partial. Diff. Eqns., 22 (1997), 413-433. doi: 10.1080/03605309708821269.
[17]	J. Li and X. Zou, Generalization of the Kermack-McKendrick SIR model to a patchy environment for a disease with latency, Math. Model. Nat. Phenom., 4 (2009), 92-118. doi: 10.1051/mmnp/20094205.
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[25]	M. H. Protter and H. F. Weinberger, Maximum Principles in Differential Equations, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1984. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5282-5.
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[27]	S. Ruan and J. Wu, Modeling Spatial Spread of Communicable Diseases Involving Animal Hosts, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, (2009), 293-316.
[28]	H. L. Smith, Monotone Dynamical Systems: An Introduction to the Theory of Competitive and Cooperative systems, Math. Surveys and Monographs, 41, Amer. Math. Soc. , Providence, RI, 1995.
[29]	H. L. Smith and X.-Q. Zhao, Robust persistence for semidynamical systems, Nonlinear. Anal., 47 (2001), 6169-6179. doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(01)00678-2.
[30]	H. R. Thieme, Book review. Linda Rass, John Radcliffe, spatial deterministic epidemics, AMS, 2003, ISBN:0821804995, Math. Biosci., 202 (2006), 218-225. doi: 10.1016/j.mbs.2006.03.015.
[31]	H. R. Thieme, Spectral bound and reproduction number for infinite-dimensional population structure and time heterogeneity, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 70 (2009), 188-211. doi: 10.1137/080732870.
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[34]	W. Wang and X.-Q. Zhao, An epidemic model in a patchy environment, Math. Biosci., 190 (2004), 97-112. doi: 10.1016/j.mbs.2002.11.001.
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[44]	X.-Q. Zhao, Global attractivity in a class of nonmonotone reaction-diffusion equations with time delay, Can. Appl. Math. Q., 17 (2009), 271-281.

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