Individual based models and differential equations models of nosocomial epidemics in hospital intensive care units

DOI10.3934/DCDSB.2017056zbMath1360.92073OpenAlexW2581378981MaRDI QIDQ524071

Glenn F. Webb

Publication date: 25 April 2017

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2017056

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic stabilityLyapunov functionalepidemic modelantibiotic resistanceinvariance principal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Medical applications (general) (92C50) Stability of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D20) Medical epidemiology (92C60)

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Uses Software

• NosoSim

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