Center manifold analysis and Hopf bifurcation of within-host virus model

Abstract

A mathematical model of a within-host viral infection is presented. A local stability analysis of the model is conducted in two ways. At first, the basic reproduction number of the system is calculated. It is shown that when the reproduction number falls below unity, the disease free equilibrium (DFE) is globally asymptotically stable, and when it exceeds unity, the DFE is unstable and there exists a unique infectious equilibrium which may or may not be stable. In the case of instability, there exists an asymptotically stable periodic solution. Secondly, an analysis of local center manifold shows that when R0 = 1, a transcritical bifurcation occurs where upon increasing R0 greater than one the DFE loses stability<br /> and a locally asymptotically positive infection equilibrium appears.