General Solution to Almost Riccati Like Equation

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Consider the differential equation

$$ y' = a_0(x) + a_1(x)y + a_2(x)\frac{1}{y}$$

I am attempting to find the general solution to this. One thing I can note is that the entire equation can be rewritten as

$$ y' = \frac{a_2(x) + a_0(x)y + a_1(x)y^2}{y} $$

Thus allowing us to state

$$ y y' = a_2(x) + a_0(x)y + a_1(x)y^2$$

I have no idea how to progress correctly from here.


By General Solution, I mean to ask if this can be re-written as a linear ODE.

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This belongs to an Abel equation of the second kind.

In fact all Abel equation of the second kind can be transformed into Abel equation of the first kind.

Let $y=\dfrac{1}{u}$ ,

Then $y'=-\dfrac{u'}{u^2}$

$\therefore-\dfrac{u'}{u^2}=a_0(x)+\dfrac{a_1(x)}{u}+a_2(x)u$

$u'=-a_2(x)u^3-a_0(x)u^2-a_1(x)u$

Please follow the method in http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmms/2011/387429/#sec2