Research Article

The Global Dynamics of an Age-Structured Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Model with Saturation Incidence and Time Delay

Table 2

The biological meanings of parameters in the system (2).

ParameterBiological meaning

The infected individuals’ transmission rate at age
The susceptible individuals’ continual influx rate
The ratio at which the infectious individuals infect the susceptible ones
All individuals’ natural mortality
, The mortality due to disease of an infectious and quarantined individual
, Infectious and quarantined individuals’s recovery rates
The quarantine rate
The loss of immunity rate