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Title

Immunological barrier for infectious diseases

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  1. Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A. C., Apartado Postal 402, 36000 Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico

Abstract

A nonlinear mathematical model with distributed delay is proposed to describe the reaction of a human organism to a pathogen agent. The stability of the disease free state is analyzed, showing that there exists a large set of initial conditions in the attraction basin of the disease-free state whose border is defined as the immunological barrier.

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Applicationes Mathematicae
1996-1997/24/3
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Pages:
289-297
Main language of publication
English
Received
1996-02-15
Published
1997
Exact and natural sciences