Global stability of models of humoral immunity against multiple viral strains
Global stability of models of humoral immunity against multiple viral strains
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DOI:
10.1080/17513750903180275
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发表时间:
2010-05
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
Toru Inoue;Tsuyoshi Kajiwara;Toru Sasaki
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作者:
Toru Inoue;Tsuyoshi Kajiwara;Toru Sasaki
We analyse, from a mathematical point of view, the global stability of equilibria for models describing the interaction between infectious agents and humoral immunity. We consider the models that contain the variables of pathogens explicitly. The first model considers the situation where only a single strain exists. For the single strain model, the disease steady state is globally asymptotically stable if the basic reproductive ratio is greater than one. The other models consider the situations where multiple strains exist. For the multi-strain models, the disease steady state is globally asymptotically stable. In the model that does not explicitly contain an immune variable, only one strain with the maximum basic reproductive ratio can survive at the steady state. However, in our models explicitly involving the immune system, multiple strains coexist at the steady state.