Stability properties and Hopf bifurcation of a delayed viral infection model with lytic immune response (Q710997)

The authors are concerned with a mathematical model describing the dynamics of interactions between susceptible host cells, a virus population and a lytic immune response. A delayed argument, corresponding to the time elapsed between the moments when the cell becomes infected and starts emitting virus particles, is introduced in the model. Under different conditions, the system consisting of one delay and two ordinary differential equations has three equilibrium points whose stability is analyzed. Numerical simulations are provided in the final part of the paper.