An immuno-epidemiological model with non-exponentially distributed disease stage on complex networks.

Junyuan Yang, Xinyi Duan, Guiquan Sun
Author Information
  1. Junyuan Yang: Complex Systems Research Center, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, Shanxi, PR China; Shanxi Key Laboratory of Mathematical Techniques in Complex Systems, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, PR China; Key Laboratory of Complex Systems and Data Science of Ministry of Education, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, PR China. Electronic address: yjyang66@sxu.edu.cn.
  2. Xinyi Duan: Baoji Vocational Technical College, Baoji 721013, PR China.
  3. Guiquan Sun: Complex Systems Research Center, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, Shanxi, PR China; Department of Mathematics, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, PR China. Electronic address: gquansun@126.com.

Abstract

Most of epidemic models assume that duration of the disease phase is distributed exponentially for the simplification of model formulation and analysis. Actually, the exponentially distributed assumption on the description of disease stages is hard to accurately approximate the interplay of drug concentration and viral load within host. In this article, we formulate an immuno-epidemiological epidemic model on complex networks, which is composed of ordinary differential equations and integral equations. The linkage of within- and between-host is connected by setting that the death caused by the disease is an increasing function in viral load within host. Mathematical analysis of the model includes the existence of the solution to the epidemiological model on complex networks, the existence and stability of equilibrium, which are completely determined by the basic reproduction number of the between-host system. Numerical analysis are shown that the non-exponentially distributions and the topology of networks have significant roles in the prediction of epidemic patterns.

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MeSH Term

Humans
Epidemics
Basic Reproduction Number
Epidemiological Models
Viral Load
Models, Immunological
Communicable Diseases

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