Global stability of an HIV-1 model with distributed intracellular delays and a combination therapy.

Global stability is analyzed for a general mathematical model of HIV-1 pathogenesis proposed by Nelson and Perelson [11]. The general model include two distributed intracellular delays and a combination therapy with a reverse transcriptase inhibitor and a protease inhibitor. It is shown that the model exhibits a threshold dynamics: if the basic reproduction number is less than or equal to one, then the HIV-1 infection is cleared from the T-cell population; whereas if the basic reproduction number is larger than one, then the HIV-1 infection persists and the viral concentration maintains at a constant level.

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