Global Dynamics of a Within-Host Model for Usutu Virus
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Model Derivation
3. Positivity and Boundedness of the Solutions
4. Equilibria and Reproduction Number
4.1. Disease-Free Equilibrium
4.2. Basic Reproduction Number
4.3. Infection Equilibrium
5. Stability Analysis
5.1. Local Stability of the Disease-Free Equilibrium
5.2. Global Stability
5.2.1. Global Stability of the Disease-Free Equilibrium
5.2.2. Global Stability of the Infection Equilibrium Point
6. Numerical Simulation
6.1. Examples for Two Scenarios Corresponding to Theorems 2 and 3
6.2. Sensitivity Analysis of the Basic Reproduction Number
6.3. Data Fitting
7. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Parameter | Definition | Units |
---|---|---|
Birth rate | (leukocyte/mL) × | |
d | Death rate | days |
Infection rate | ( PFU/mL) × days | |
k | Transition rate from exposed to infectious | days |
Disease-induced death rate | days | |
p | Production rate of virions | PFU/(infected cell × day) |
c | Virus clearance rate | days |
Positive parameter describing the effects of capture rate | (leukocyte/mL) | |
Positive parameter describing the effects of capture rate | ( PFU/mL) |
Parameter | Value for Figure 3a | Value for Figure 3b |
---|---|---|
1.37 | 1 | |
d | 0.6 | 0.304 |
0.234 | 0.056 | |
k | 0.35 | 0.385 |
1 | 0.22 | |
p | 788 | 6344 |
c | 15.65 | 15 |
0.284 | 0.013 | |
0.039 | 0.007 | |
0.081 | 6344 | |
0.171 | 0.005 | |
0.156 | 0.004 | |
0.274 | 0.107 |
Parameter | (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1.26 | 0.64 | 0.002 | 0.36 | |
d | 0.43 | 0.44 | 0.07 | 0.43 |
k | 1.36 | 1.35 | 1.41 | 0.81 |
24.13 | 10.27 | 3.3 | 2.5 | |
p | 422.1 | 372.1 | 16.16 | 8.83 |
c | 17.18 | 16.8 | 10.22 | 16.03 |
3.48 | 4.89 | 6.93 | 7.14 | |
4.24 | 1.22 | 9.71 | 9.82 | |
17.16 | 27.34 | 1869 | 18.94 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleNali, Ibrahim, and Attila Dénes. 2023. "Global Dynamics of a Within-Host Model for Usutu Virus" Computation 11, no. 11: 226. https://doi.org/10.3390/computation11110226