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Trahan, Marc-Antoine
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Sur un modèle d'infection virale avec délai distribué
Theses and supervised dissertations / 2024-05
Trahan, Marc-Antoine
Abstract
Abstract
The mathematical modeling of the dynamics of autoimmune diseases contributes to the
understanding of their mechanisms, thus providing better guidance for treatments. In this
context, this thesis analyzes a distributed delay differential equations system modeling the
evolution of HIV in an infected body, describing the interactions between uninfected CD4-T
cells, infected cells, virus particles and the immune response. Aavani [1] studied a similar but
simpler model, incorporating a discrete delay, which we generalize using alternative methods
for the investigation of stability of stationary solutions.
The asymptotic behavior of the solutions is entirely characterized by the delay, denoted
\(\tau \) , representing the time before an infected cell produces virus particles. It is shown that
for a sufficiently large value of \(\tau \) , i.e. above a certain threshold \(\tau_1 \), the infection tends to
die out since the disease-free steady-state is asymptotically stable. Then, for a delay below
this threshold, the infection persists : the disease-free steady-state being unstable. In this
case, the acute steady-state and the chronic stage exchange asymptotic stability according
to another threshold \(\tau_2 \). Numerical simulations finally support the conclusions obtained
analytically.