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BIOSYSTEMS
Volume 73, Issue 3, Pages 157-161Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2003.11.004
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HIV; viral population growth; HIV model
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We consider simple mathematical models for the early population dynamics of the human immunodefficiency type 1 virus (HIV-1). Although these systems of differential equations may be solved by numerical methods, few general theoretical results are available due to nonlinearities. We analyze a model whose components are plasma densities of uninfected CD4+ T-cells and infected cells (assumed in this model to be proportional to virion density). In addition to analyzing the nature of the equilibrium points, we show that there are no periodic or limit-cycle solutions. Depending on the values of the parameters, solutions either tend without oscillation to an equilibrium point with zero virion density or to an equilibrium point in which there are a nonzero number of virions. In the latter case the approach to equilibrium may be through damped oscillations or without oscillation. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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