Sex ratio features of two-group SIR model for asymmetrie transmission of heterosexual disease

  • Authors:
  • C. Koide;H. Seno

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama 1-3-1 Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739 Japan;Information and Computer Sciences Nara Women's University, Kita-uoya-nishi-machi, Nara, 630 Japan

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We consider the SIR model with two sexual groups to discuss the effect of the asymmetricity in the transmission dynamics of STDs. It is shown that the asymmetric transmission between two groups results in the asymmetric structure of infective populations.