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susceptible, infected and infectious populations at all time instants which may not be
available in certain real situations. However, such a drawback can be overcome by
adding an observer to estimate online all the partial populations.
Acknowledgements. The authors thank to the Spanish Ministry of Education by its
support through Grant DPI2009-07197 and to the Basque Government by its support
through Grants IT378-10, SAIOTEK SPE07UN04 and SAIOTEK SPE09UN12.
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