期刊
BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY
卷 70, 期 3, 页码 745-768出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-007-9277-y
关键词
Klebsiella pneumoniae; aggregation; flocculation; parameter identification
资金
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM081702-02, R01 GM069438, 3R01GM069438-02S1] Funding Source: Medline
The bacterial pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae is a cause of community- and hospital-acquired lung, urinary tract and blood stream infections. It is a common contaminant of indwelling catheters and it is theorized in that context that systemic infection follows shedding of aggregates off of surface-adherent biofilm colonies. In an effort to better understand bacterial proliferation in the host bloodstream, we develop a PDE model for the flocculation dynamics of Klebsiella pneumoniae in suspension. Existence and uniqueness results are provided, as well as a brief description of the numerical approximation scheme. We generate artificial data and illustrate the requirements to accurately identify proliferation, aggregation, and fragmentation of flocs in the experimental domain of interest.
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