Volume 42, Issue 3 pp. 892-906
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Threshold dynamics of a delayed virus infection model with cellular immunity and general nonlinear incidence

Jinhu Xu

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Jinhu Xu

School of Sciences, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, PR China

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Jinhu Xu, School of Sciences, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an 710048, PR China.

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Communicated by: B. Harrach

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Yan Geng

Yan Geng

School of Science, Xi'an Polytechnic University, Xi'an, PR China

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First published: 19 November 2018
Citations: 4

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to investigate the dynamical behavior of a general nonlinear delayed viral infection model with cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) immune response. The intrinsic growth rate of uninfected hepatocytes, incidence rate of infection, removal rate of infected hepatocytes and capsids, production and removal rate of viruses, activation rate of CTLs, and decay rate of CTLs are given by general nonlinear functions with a set of conditions on these general nonlinear functions, which make the analysis of the model more difficult. The global threshold dynamics with respect to the reproduction numbers for viral infection urn:x-wiley:mma:media:mma5392:mma5392-math-0001 and for CTL immune response urn:x-wiley:mma:media:mma5392:mma5392-math-0002 have been presented by constructing suitable Lyapunov functionals. Numerical simulations are carried out for a model with specific forms of the general functions to confirm the theoretical results and show that both the numerical and theoretical results are consistent.

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