scholarly journals Global stability of models of humoral immunity against multiple viral strains

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toru Inoue ◽  
Tsuyoshi Kajiwara ◽  
Toru Sasaki
Keyword(s):  
Global Stability ◽  
Humoral Immunity ◽  
Multiple Viral Strains

Global stability of a delayed virus dynamics model with multi-staged infected progression and humoral immunity

2016 ◽  
Vol 09 (04) ◽  
pp. 1650060
Author(s):  
A. M. Ełaiw ◽  
N. H. AlShamrani
Keyword(s):  
Global Stability ◽  
Humoral Immunity ◽  
Removal Rate ◽  
Infection Model ◽  
Target Cells ◽  
Virus Dynamics ◽  
Nonlinear Functions ◽  
Dynamics Model ◽  
Discrete Delays ◽  
Infected Cells

In this paper, we propose a nonlinear virus dynamics model that describes the interactions of the virus, uninfected target cells, multiple stages of infected cells and B cells and includes multiple discrete delays. We assume that the incidence rate of infection and removal rate of infected cells are given by general nonlinear functions. The model can be seen as a generalization of several humoral immunity viral infection model presented in the literature. We derive two threshold parameters and establish a set of conditions on the general functions which are sufficient to establish the existence and global stability of the three equilibria of the model. We study the global asymptotic stability of the equilibria by using Lyapunov method. We perform some numerical simulations for the model with specific forms of the general functions and show that the numerical results are consistent with the theoretical results.

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