Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4618572 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 2011 14 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this paper, we investigate global dynamics for a system of delay differential equations which describes a virus-immune interaction in vivo. The model has two distributed time delays describing time needed for infection of cell and virus replication. Our model admits three possible equilibria, an uninfected equilibrium and infected equilibrium with or without immune response depending on the basic reproduction number for viral infection R0 and for CTL response R1 such that R11. The immune activation has a positive role in the reduction of the infection cells and the increasing of the uninfected cells if R1>1.

Related Topics
Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Analysis