A stochastic SIRS epidemic model with logistic growth and general nonlinear incidence rate

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a stochastic SIRS epidemic model with logistic growth and general nonlinear incidence rate. We establish sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of an ergodic stationary distribution of the positive solutions to the stochastic model by constructing a suitable stochastic Lyapunov function, which provides us a good description of persistence. We find that the hypothetical conditions on the nonlinear function are relative weak and valid for many forms of incidence rate.