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Wave solutions for the deterministic host-vector epidemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. Radcliffe ,
L. Rass  and
W. D. Stirling
J. Radcliffe
Affiliation:
Queen Mary College, London
L. Rass
Affiliation:
Queen Mary College, London
W. D. Stirling
Affiliation:
Queen Mary College, London
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Recent papers by Atkinson and Reuter(1), Brown and Carr(5), and Barbour(2) have proved several important results concerning wave solutions of the usual deterministic model for the spatial spread of an epidemic, such as measles or influenza. In particular Atkinson and Reuter showed that non-trivial wave solutions, in a population along a line, only exist provided the contact distribution function has an exponentially bounded tail, and that the speed of propagation c must be at least some critical value c0. They constructed a solution for c > c0, which Barbour later showed to be the unique solution, modulo translation, at that speed. Brown and Carr showed that a solution was also possible at speed c0, though it has not been possible to show uniqueness at this speed.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 91 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 131 - 152
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1982

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