<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Applied Mathematics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2152-7385</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/am.2016.71010</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AM-63141</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  An Improved Method to an Impulsive and Delayed Discretized Model
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>ujing</surname><given-names>Liu</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lijun</surname><given-names>Zhang</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shujing</surname><given-names>Gao</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Numerical Simulation and Emulation Techniques, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, China</addr-line></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>11</day><month>01</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><volume>07</volume><issue>01</issue><fpage>108</fpage><lpage>123</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>23</day>	<month>December</month>	<year>2015</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>accepted</day>	<month>25</month>	<year>January</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>28</day>	<month>January</month>	<year>2016</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  In this paper, a discretized SIR model with pulse vaccination and time delay is proposed. We introduce two thresholds 
  <em>R</em>
  * and 
  <em>R</em>
  <sub>*</sub>, and further prove that the disease-free periodic solution is globally attractive if 
  <em>R</em>
  * is less than unit and the disease can invade if 
  <em>R</em>
  <sub>*</sub> is larger than unit. The numerical simulations not only illustrate the validity of our main results, but also exhibit bifurcation phenomenon. Our result shows that decreasing infection rate can put off the disease outbreak and reduce the number of infected individuals.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Discrete Epidemic Model</kwd><kwd> Time Delay</kwd><kwd> Pulse Vaccination</kwd><kwd> Extinction</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Infectious diseases have a great influence on the human life and socio-economy, which lead many scientists to implement more effective measures and preparedness programs. Pulse vaccination strategy (PVS) is the one of important methods to control disease, such as hepatitis B, parotitis and encephalitis B. From the theoretical results we can know that the PVS can be distinguished from the conventional strategies in leading to disease eradication at relatively low values of vaccination [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref1">1</xref>] . And one investigates under what conditions given agent can invade partially vaccinated population, i.e., how large a fraction of the population do we have to keep vaccinated in order to prevent the agent from establishing. Then a number of epidemic models in ecology can be formulated as dynamical systems of differential equation with pulse vaccination [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref2">2</xref>] -[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref6">6</xref>] , of which the SIR infectious disease model is an important biologic model.</p><p>A model for the spread of an infectious disease (involving only susceptible and infective individuals) trans- mitted by a vector after an incubation time was proposed by Cook [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref7">7</xref>] . This is called the phenomena of time delay which has very important biologic meaning in epidemic models. But for the system, many authors don’t put to use the distributed delay. Because the distributed delay allows infectivity to be a function of the duration since infection up to some maximum duration. Comparing with the time be a fixed time, the distributed delay is more appropriate form and more realistic. Beretta and Takeuchi [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref3">3</xref>] did study the following continuous SIR model with distributed delay, without considering the pulse vaccination strategy:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula478"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x6.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where the infectiousness is assumed to vary over time from the initial time of infection until a duration h has passed and the function means the fraction of vector population in which the time taken to become infectious is t.</p><p>For simplicity, they let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be nonnegative and continuous on <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and assume that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x9.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>In the decade years, many authors have directly studied the delay SIR epidemic models with time delays and pulse vaccination [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref8">8</xref>] -[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref11">11</xref>] . In 2010, Yanke Du and his co-workers [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref9">9</xref>] have studied an SIR epidemic model with nonlinear incidence rate and pulse vaccination:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula479"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x10.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where all coefficients are positive constants. A represents the recruitment rate assuming all newborns to be susceptible. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x11.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x12.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> represent the death rates of susceptible, infectious, and recovered, respectively. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x13.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>(<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x14.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>) is the proportion of those vaccinated successfully, which is called impulsive vaccination rate. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x15.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is the period of pulsing. Considering the nonlinear incidence rate<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x16.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, they have found the basic reproduction <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x17.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and obtain an infection-free periodic solution <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x18.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for the system. More importantly, they certified that if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, it is globally attractive, and if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, the system is permanent. But they did not study the the distributed delay. This is partly because the system is with nonlinear incidence rate and pulse vaccination, then investigation of global behavior for with the effect of saturation incidence and distributed time delay on the SIR epidemic model with a pulse vaccination is challenging.</p><p>The incidence rate plays an important role in the epidemic models. In many epidemic models, the Bilinear incidence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is based on the law of mass action. This contact law is more appropriate for communicable diseases such as influenza, but not for sexually transmitted diseases. For standard incidence<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, it may be a good approximation if the number of available partners is large enough and everybody could not make more contacts than practically feasible. In [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref12">12</xref>] , Capasso and Serio introduced a saturated incidence rate <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> into epidemic models after studying the cholera epidemic spread in Bari in 1973, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> measures the infection force of the disease and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> measures the inhibition effect from the behavioral change of the susceptible individuals when their number increases. That is to say,the saturated incidence rate tends to a saturation level when I gets large. Comparing with bilinear and standard incidence, saturation in- cidence may be more suitable for our real world.</p><p>On the other hand, numerical simulation is usually used to assess all kinds of continuous models and check our theoretical results. But, the statistical data of epidemic is collected and reported in discrete time, such as daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. Sometimes, they may fail generating oscillations, bifurcations, chaos and false steady states [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref13">13</xref>] . In order to be more in line with the actual, many authors are hoping to discuss discretized models, which always exhibit richer and more complicated dynamical behaviors than continuous models. For example, Masaki and Emiko [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref14">14</xref>] have used the nonstandard finite difference scheme to study the dynamics of a discretized SIR epidemic model with pulse vaccination and time delay:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula480"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x26.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>) are susceptible, infective and recovered with permanent immunity classes at nth step individually. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is a positive step size. The constant <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> represents the immigration rate, assuming all newborns to be susceptible. r is the recovery rate. Note that the delay <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and the period of pulsing <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are positive integers, and the parameter <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the proportion of those vaccinated successfully.</p><p>To prevent these classes of numerical instabilities, as one of numerical schemes, the nonstandard finite- difference scheme, developed by Mickens [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref15">15</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref17">17</xref>] , has been applied to various problems in science [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref18">18</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref21">21</xref>] . By using this kind of scheme [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref16">16</xref>] , it leads to asymptotic dynamics and numerical results are always qualita- tively the same as the corresponding solutions of several ordinary differential equations for any positive step size. More importantly, This scheme has brought the creation of new numerical schemes that preserve the pro- perties of the continuous model [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref6">6</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref8">8</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref10">10</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref13">13</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref22">22</xref>] .</p><p>Motivated by the work of [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref9">9</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref14">14</xref>] , in this paper, we are considered with the effect of saturation incidence and distributed time delay on the dynamics of a discrete SIR epidemic model with pulse vaccination:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula481"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x35.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where all coefficients are positive constants. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>) are also susceptible, infective and recovered with permanent immunity classes at nth step individually. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is a constant integer, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is</p><p>the infected period, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>are weighting coefficients and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. The notations of other para- meters are the same as system (3).</p><p>In this paper, the structure of the layout is as follows. In the next section, we mainly obtain the positivity and boundedness of the solution of the system. Furthermore, we give some important conclusions so as to make matting for the Section 3. In Section 3, we analyzed the existence and global behavior of the infection-free periodic solution of the system. The permanence of our model is discussed in Section 4. Our results are the same to Theorems 1 and 2 in system (2). In Section 5, we show some numerical experiments which have verified our theoretical results.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Basic Properties and Preliminaries</title><p>Noting that the variable R does not appear in the first two equations of system (4), it is sufficient to consider the following 2-dimensional system.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula482"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x43.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> The initial conditions of the system (5) are given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula483"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x45.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>For the reduced system (5), at first, we show that the solution has positivity for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x46.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and bounded above for sufficiently large n.</p><p>Lemma 1. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a solution of system (5), with the initial conditions (6), then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. And any solution <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of system (5) satisfies<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x52.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x52.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x53.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Proof. From the initial condition (6) and the first and second equations of system (5), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula484"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x54.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula485"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x55.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x56.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. It follows from (7) that x satisfies the following equation</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula486"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x57.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is monotonically increasing with respect to x, and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x60.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Therefore, there exists a unique <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x60.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x60.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. This shows that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x60.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>From (8), we can directly obtain<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x64.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>From the above discussions, we finally have <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>When<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x67.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, from model (5) we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula487"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x68.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula488"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x69.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>A similar argument as in the above proof for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we also can obtain that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. By using the induction, we can finally obtain that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Moreover, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Therefore we can easily obtain that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>From the system (5), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula489"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x83.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Thus</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula490"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x84.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x85.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Consider the following comparison system</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula491"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x86.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Obviously, system (9) has a globally asymptotically stable equilibrium<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Hence, according to the comparison principle of the difference equations, we have that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula492"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x88.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>This shows that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x89.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is also ultimately bounded. This completes the proof. □</p><p>Lemma 2 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.63141-ref14">14</xref>] . Let us consider the following impulsive difference equations:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula493"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x90.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x91.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Then system (11) has a unique positive periodic solution</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula494"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x92.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which is globally asymptotically stable.</p><p>Lemma 3. Consider the following equation</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula495"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x93.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. We have</p><p>(i) if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>;</p><p>(ii) if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Proof. From (12), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula496"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x99.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>It is obvious that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x100.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x100.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x101.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Denote<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x102.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. From (12), we can also obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula497"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x103.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Suppose that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula498"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x104.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then we further have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula499"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x105.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By Mathematical induction, we can get for any<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x106.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exist<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x106.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x106.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x106.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula500"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x110.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>So, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x111.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x111.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>By the similar arguments to above steps, we can obtain that for any<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exist<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x116.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x116.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x117.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x116.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x117.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x118.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x116.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x117.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x118.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x119.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. The Lemma 3 is com- pleted. □</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Global Attractivity of Infection-Free Periodic Solution</title><p>In this section, we begin to analyze system (5) by first demonstrating the existence of an infection-free periodic solution, in which infectious individuals are entirely absent from the population permanently.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula501"><label>(13)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x120.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By Lemma 2, we know that periodic solution of system (13)</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula502"><label>(14)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x121.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which is globally asymptotically stable.</p><p>Theorem 4. If<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x122.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then the infection-free periodic solution <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x122.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x123.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of system (5) is globally attractive, where</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula503"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x124.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. Since<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x125.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we can choose <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x125.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x126.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> sufficiently small such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula504"><label>(15)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x127.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>From the first equation of system (5), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula505"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x128.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then we consider the following comparison system with pulses:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula506"><label>(16)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x129.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>From Lemma 2, we have that the periodic solution of (16)</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula507"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x130.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>is globally asymptotically stable. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x131.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be the solution of system (5) with initial value (6) and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x131.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x131.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be the solution of system (16) with initial value<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x131.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x134.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. According to the non-negativity of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x131.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x134.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x135.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x131.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x134.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x135.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x136.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists an integer <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x131.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x134.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x135.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x136.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x137.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula508"><label>(17)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x138.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>that is for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x139.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula509"><label>(18)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x140.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Further, from the second equation of system (5), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula510"><label>(19)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x141.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x142.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Then we consider the following comparison equation:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula511"><label>(20)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x143.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>From (15) and Lemma 3, we have<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x144.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be the solution of (20). We choose a constant value as the initial conditions <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x147.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. By the non-negativity of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x147.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x148.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x147.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x148.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Therefore, for any sufficiently small<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x147.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x148.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists an integer<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x147.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x148.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x147.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x148.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x147.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x148.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x153.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. From the first equation of system (5), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula512"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x154.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Consider the following comparison system with pulse:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula513"><label>(21)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x155.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>From Lemma 2, we obtain the globally asymptotically stable periodic solution of (21)<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x156.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, i.e.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula514"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x157.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x158.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be the solution of (21) with initial value (6) and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x158.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x159.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x158.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x159.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x160.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be the solution of system (16) with initial value<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x158.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x159.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x160.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x161.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. By the non-negativity of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x158.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x159.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x160.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x161.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x158.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x159.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x160.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x161.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x163.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists an integer <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x158.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x159.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x160.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x161.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x163.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x164.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula515"><label>(22)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x165.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x166.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x166.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x167.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are sufficiently small. From (17) and (22), we know that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula516"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x168.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>is globally attractive.</p><p>Hence, the infection-free periodic solution <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of system (5) is globally attractive. The proof is com- pleted. □</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Permanence</title><p>In this section, we obtain sufficient condition for permanence of system (5). Denote two quantities</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula517"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x170.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula518"><label>(23)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x171.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is defined in Theorem 4. Obviously, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Theorem 5. Suppose<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x176.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Then there is a positive constant q such that each solution <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x176.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x177.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of system (5) satisfies</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula519"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x178.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be any solution of system (5) with initial condition (6). We claim that for any<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, it is impossible that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x181.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x181.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x182.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Suppose that the claim is not valid. Then there is a <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x181.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x182.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x183.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x181.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x182.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x183.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x184.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x181.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x182.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x183.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x184.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x185.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>It follows from the first equation of (5), that for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x186.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula520"><label>(24)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x187.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Consider the following comparison impulsive system for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x188.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula521"><label>(25)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x189.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By Lemma 2, we know that the periodic solution of system (25)</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula522"><label>(26)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x190.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which is globally asymptotically stable.</p><p>From (26), we can get</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula523"><label>(27)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x191.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be the solution of system (5) with initial values (6), <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x193.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>be the solution of system (25) with ini-</p><p>tial value<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x194.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. By comparison theorem, we know that, for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x194.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x194.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x196.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such</p><p>that the following inequality holds for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x197.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula524"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x198.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>It follows from (27) that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula525"><label>(28)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x199.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x200.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. It follows from (23) and (28) that for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x200.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x201.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula526"><label>(29)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x202.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Set</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula527"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x203.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We will show that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x204.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x204.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x205.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Suppose the contrary. Then there is a <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x204.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x205.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x206.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x204.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x205.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x206.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x207.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x204.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x205.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x206.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x207.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x208.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x204.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x205.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x206.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x207.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x208.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x209.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula528"><label>(30)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x210.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>This is a contradiction. Thus, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x211.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x211.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x212.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Let us consider any positive solution <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x213.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of system (5). According to this solution, we define</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula529"><label>(31)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x214.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula530"><label>(32)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x215.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Since</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula531"><label>(33)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x216.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>It follows from (29), we have that for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x217.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula532"><label>(34)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x218.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which implies that as<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x219.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. This contradicts<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x219.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x220.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Hence, the claim is proved.</p><p>By the claim, we are left to consider two cases.</p><p>Case 1. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x221.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for all large n. The conclusion is evident in this case.</p><p>Case 2. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x222.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>oscillates about <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x222.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x223.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all large n. Set <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x222.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x223.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x224.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x222.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x223.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x224.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x225.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfy</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula533"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x226.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x227.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be the smallest integer such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x227.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x228.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is strictly exceeding<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x227.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x228.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x229.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Denote</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula534"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x230.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Subcase 2.1. If<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x231.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then from the second equation of the system (5), for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x231.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x232.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula535"><label>(35)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x233.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Subcase 2.2. If<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x234.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we shall consider the following two subcases, respectively.</p><p>(a) If<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x235.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, it follows from (35) that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x235.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x236.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>;</p><p>(b) If<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x237.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we firstly claim that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x237.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x238.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x237.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x238.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x239.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>From the first equation of comparison system (25) for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x240.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula536"><label>(36)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x241.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x242.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the number of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x242.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x243.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> immediately after the kth pulse vaccination at time<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x242.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x243.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x244.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Using the second equation of (25), we reduce the stroboscopic map such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula537"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x245.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Therefore, by using the stroboscopic map and (27) we can derive for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x246.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula538"><label>(37)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x247.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and from (36), we also obtain that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula539"><label>(38)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x248.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>It follows from (37)and (38) that for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x249.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula540"><label>(39)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x250.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the solution of system (5) with<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the solution of comparison system (25) with<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x254.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Obviously, (39) implies that (28) holds when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x254.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x255.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Then, proceeding exactly as the proof for the above claim, we see that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x254.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x255.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x256.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x254.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x255.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x256.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x257.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Since these positive integer <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x254.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x255.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x256.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x257.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x258.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x254.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x255.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x256.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x257.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x258.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x259.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are chosen in arbitrary way, we conclude that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x254.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x255.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x256.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x257.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x258.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x259.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x260.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all large n. This proof is com- pleted. □</p><p>Theorem 6. System (5) is permanent provided that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x261.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Proof. Denote <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x262.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be any solution of system (5) with initial condition (refc1:cond). From the first equ- ation of system (5), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula541"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x263.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>for sufficiently large n. Consider the following comparison system:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula542"><label>(40)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x264.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>According to Lemma 2, we know that for any sufficiently small<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x265.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists a sufficiently large <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x265.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x266.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula543"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x267.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x268.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. By Lemma 1 and Theorem 5, we can obtain system (5) is permanent. The proof of Theorem 6 is complete. □</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Numerical Simulation and Discussion</title><p>We have formulated a discretized SIR epidemic model with pulse vaccination and time delay. We establish some threshold conditions for permanence and extinction of the disease. To illustrate the analytical results, we do some numerical simulations.</p><p>Set<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x269.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x269.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x270.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x269.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x270.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x271.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x269.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x270.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x271.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x272.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x269.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x270.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x271.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x272.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x273.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x269.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x270.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x271.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x272.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x273.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x274.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x269.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x270.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x271.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x272.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x273.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x274.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x275.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x269.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x270.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x271.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x272.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x273.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x274.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x275.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x276.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x269.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x270.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x271.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x272.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x273.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x274.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x275.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x276.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x277.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then system (5) becomes</p><disp-formula id="scirp.63141-formula544"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x278.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x279.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x279.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x280.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. According to Theorem 4, we know that the disease will die out (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>). Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x279.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x280.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x281.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x279.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x280.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x281.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x282.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. According to Theorem 5, we know that the disease will be permanent (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>).</p><fig-group id="fig1"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref></label><caption><title> The time series of system (2.1) with initial values are <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x284.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x284.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x285.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x284.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x285.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x286.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x284.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x285.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x286.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x287.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. The disease dies out.</title></caption><fig id ="fig1_1"><label></label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x283.png"/></fig></fig-group><fig id="fig2"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref></label><caption><title> The time series of system (5) with initial values are <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x289.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x289.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x290.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x289.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x290.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x291.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x289.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x290.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x291.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x292.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. The disease is permanent</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x288.png"/></fig><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref> shows a bifurcation diagram for stroboscopic map of system (2.1) with the infection rate <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x293.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> as the bifurcation parameter. This is illustrated in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref> by the curve <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x293.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x294.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> (the number of infection individuals at the equilibrium) that varies with<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x293.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x294.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x295.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. We can observe that the value of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x293.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x294.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x295.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x296.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> increases as <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x293.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x294.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x295.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x296.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x297.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> increases, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x293.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x294.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x295.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x296.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x297.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x298.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is hypersensitive when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x293.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x294.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x295.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x296.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x297.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x298.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x299.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, or else it is insensitive.</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref> shows a bifurcation diagram for stroboscopic map system (2.1) with pulse vaccination rate <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x300.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> as the bifurcation parameter (for which<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x300.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x301.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>). In this case, numerical result implies that there is unique positive equilibrium of stroboscopic map for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x300.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x301.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x302.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, that is, there is a positive periodic solution of system (2.1) for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x300.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x301.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x302.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x303.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. As <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref> shown, it can be seen that the positive equilibrium is globally attractive.</p><fig id="fig3"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref></label><caption><title> The bifurcation diagram the unique endemic equilibrium (the com- ponent I of infectious individuals regarding b as the bifurcation parameter, all other parameters are same as in model (5.1))</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x304.png"/></fig><fig id="fig4"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref></label><caption><title> The bifurcation diagram the unique endemic equilibrium (the com- ponent I of infectious individuals regarding <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x306.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> as the bifurcation parameter, all other parameters are same as in model (5.1) except for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x306.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x307.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>)</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x305.png"/></fig><fig-group id="fig5"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref></label><caption><title> Time series of system (2.1).<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x310.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</title></caption><fig id ="fig5_1"><label> (b)</label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x309.png"/></fig><fig id ="fig5_2"><label></label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x308.png"/></fig></fig-group><fig id="fig6"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref></label><caption><title> The phase diagram of system (2.1).<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x312.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x311.png"/></fig><fig id="fig7"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref></label><caption><title> The tendency of the infected individuals I with different values of b</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x313.png"/></fig><p>Therefore, an interesting open problem is proposed whether we can prove that the positive periodic solution of model (2.1) is globally attractive as<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x314.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Finally, the numerical simulations of the stroboscopic map of model on the number of infected individuals with different values of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x315.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>. It shows that the number of infected individuals will in- crease steadily in next few days, then reach the peak and begin a slow decline, and finally become stable. The greater the value<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x315.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-7403021x316.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, the bigger the peak value and the earlier the peak appears. Our result implies that decreas- ing infection rate can put off the disease outbreak and reduce the number of infected individuals.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>The research has been supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (11261004, 11561004), the Sci- ence and Technology Plan Projects of Jiangxi Provincial Education Department (GJJ14673) and the Social Sci- ence Planning Projects of Jiangxi Province (14XW08).</p></sec><sec id="s7"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>YujingLiu,LijunZhang,ShujingGao, (2016) An Improved Method to an Impulsive and Delayed Discretized Model. Applied Mathematics,07,108-123. doi: 10.4236/am.2016.71010</p></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.63141-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Agur, Z., Cojocaru, L., Mazor, G., et al. (1993) Pulse Mass Measles Vaccination across Age Cohorts. 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