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Threshold dynamics of a time-periodic two-strain SIRS epidemic model with distributed delay
AIMS Mathematics 2022, 7(4): 6331-6355
Published: 15 April 2022
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In this paper, a two-strain SIRS epidemic model with distributed delay and spatiotemporal heterogeneity is proposed and investigated. We first introduce the basic reproduction number R 0 i and the invasion number R ^ 0 i ( i = 1 , 2 ) for each strain i. Then the threshold dynamics of the model is established in terms of R 0 i and R ^ 0 i by using the theory of chain transitive sets and persistence. It is shown that if R ^ 0 i > 1 ( i = 1 , 2 ), then the disease in two strains is persist uniformly; if R 0 i > 1 R 0 j ( i j , i , j = 1 , 2 ), then the disease in i-th strain is uniformly persist, but the disease in j-th strain will disappear; if R 0 i < 1 or R 0 i = 1 ( i = 1 , 2 ) and β i ( x , t ) > 0, then the disease in two strains will disappear.

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