At an endemic equilibrium, . The equation then gives
Since also , the equation gives
This infective population is positive precisely when
which is exactly the assumed instability condition for the disease-free equilibrium. Thus the endemic equilibrium of the susceptible-infective model with exponential birth exists.
At this equilibrium the relations above reduce the Jacobian matrix to
Hence
By the trace-determinant stability criterion, both eigenvalues have negative real part. The linearization stability theorem therefore proves that the endemic equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable.