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Work performed in the context of the Special Program "Control of Infectious Diseases" of the National Research Council (C.N.R.) of Italy.

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Capasso, V. (1987). Mathematical methods for the control of infectious diseases. In: Lasiecka, I., Triggiani, R. (eds) Control Problems for Systems Described by Partial Differential Equations and Applications. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0038750

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