THE DYNAMICS OF THE CONSTANT AND PULSE BIRTH IN AN SIR EPIDEMIC MODEL WITH CONSTANT RECRUITMENT

In this paper, an SIR epidemic model with constant recruitment is considered. The dynamic behavior of this disease model with constant and pulse birth are analyzed. With constant birth, the infection-free equilibrium is locally and globally stable when the basic reproductive number R0< 1. However, with pulse birth the system converges to a stable period solution with the number of infectious individuals equal to zero. Furthermore, the local and global stability of the periodic infection-free solution is obtained if the basic reproductive number [Formula: see text]. Numerical simulation shows that the periodic infection-free solution is unstable and the disease will persist when [Formula: see text]. The effectiveness of the constant and pulse birth to eliminating the disease are compared.