Stability and Hopf Bifurcation of a Cytokine-Enhanced HIV Infection Model with Saturation Incidence and Three Delays

Abstract

To discuss the influence of cytokine-enhanced rate and antibody delay on viral infection, in this paper, we propose a cytokine-enhanced HIV model with saturation incidence, antibody immune response and time delays. Multiple time delays, namely intracellular delay, virus replication delay and antibody delay, are included. First, we prove that the model is well-posed. Then, we obtain two basic reproductive numbers of the model. Next, the stability of the equilibria is investigated by using Lyapunov functions and LaSalle’s invariance principle. The results show that intracellular delay and virus replication delay do not impact on the stability of the three equilibria. However, if antibody immune response delay is positive, we determine some conditions for stability switches of the endemic equilibrium by using antibody immune response delay as a bifurcation parameter. It is concluded that with the increase of antibody immune response delay, the endemic equilibrium loses its stability and the system generates Hopf bifurcation. Finally, the numerical simulation results also show the correctness of the theoretical results.