Immunological barrier for infectious diseases
Volume 24 / 1997
Applicationes Mathematicae 24 (1997), 289-297
DOI: 10.4064/am-24-3-289-297
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.