Exogenous re-infection does not always cause backward bifurcation in TB transmission dynamics

DOI10.1016/j.amc.2016.11.009zbMath1411.92289OpenAlexW2560747287MaRDI QIDQ1735109

Abba B. Gumel, Oluwaseun Y. Sharomi, Mohammad A. Safi, David J. Gerberry

Publication date: 28 March 2019

Published in: Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2016.11.009

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityequilibriareproduction numberbackward bifurcationmycobacterium tuberculosisre-infection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models (34C60)

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