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A recovery-relapse epidemic model with spatial diffusion

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An epidemic model of an infectious phenomenon is analyzed. The model allows for an age-dependency to describe the phases of incubation, recovery, and relapse, and for a spatial dependency to describe diffusion of the population in geographical space.

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Supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF MCS 7903047

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Webb, G.F. A recovery-relapse epidemic model with spatial diffusion. J. Math. Biology 14, 177–194 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01832843

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