## Stability analysis of delayed SIR epidemic models with a class of nonlinear incidence rates.(English)Zbl 1244.92048

Summary: We analyze the stability of equilibria for a delayed SIR epidemic model, in which population growth is subject to logistic growth in absence of disease, with a nonlinear incidence rate satisfying suitable monotonicity conditions. The model admits a unique endemic equilibrium if and only if the basic reproduction number $$R_{0}$$ exceeds one, while the trivial equilibrium and the disease-free equilibrium always exist.
First we show that the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable if and only if $$R_{0} \leqslant 1$$. Second we show that the model is permanent if and only if $$R_{0} > 1$$. Moreover, using a threshold parameter $$\bar R_0$$ characterized by the nonlinear incidence function, we establish that the endemic equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable for $$1 < R_0 \leqslant \bar R_0$$ and it loses stability as the length of the delay increases past a critical value for $$1< \bar R_0 < R_0$$. Our result is an extension of the stability results of J.-J. Wang, J.-Z. Zhang and Z. Jin [Analysis of an SIR model with bilinear incidence rate. Nonlinear Anal., Real World Appl. 11, No. 4, 2390–2402 (2010; Zbl 1203.34136)].

### MSC:

 92D30 Epidemiology 34K20 Stability theory of functional-differential equations 34K60 Qualitative investigation and simulation of models involving functional-differential equations

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