Research Article

Nonlinear Pulse Vaccination in an SIR Epidemic Model with Resource Limitation

Table 1

Parameter definitions, values and source for model (4).

ParameterDefinitionValueSource

Rate of natural birth or death rate of the population (year−1) [33]
Probability of transmission per contact (year−1) [33]
Natural recovery rate of the infective individuals (year−1) [33]
The maximal vaccination proportion (year−1) [8, 9]
The half saturation constant Assumption
Period of pulse vaccination (year) [8, 9]