Castellazzo, A.; Mauro, A.; Volpe, C.; Venturino, E. Do demographic and disease structures affect the recurrence of epidemics? (English) Zbl 1250.92037 Math. Model. Nat. Phenom. 7, No. 3, 28-39 (2012). Summary: We present an epidemic model affecting an age-structured population. We show by numerical simulations that this demographic structure can induce persistent oscillations in the epidemic. The model is then extended to encompass a stage-structured disease within an age-dependent population. In this case as well, persistent oscillations are observed in the infected as well as in the whole population. Cited in 2 Documents MSC: 92D30 Epidemiology 35Q92 PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences 65C20 Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics Keywords:age-structured populations; stage-structured epidemics PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{A. Castellazzo} et al., Math. Model. Nat. Phenom. 7, No. 3, 28--39 (2012; Zbl 1250.92037) Full Text: DOI EuDML