Analysis of a bacteria-immunity model with delay quorum sensing

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 102-115

  Zhang, Zhonghua ^a   Peng, Jigen ^a   Zhang, Juan ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Center manifold; Distributed delay; Hopf bifurcation; Immunity; Quorum sensing; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 37449006738     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: 10960813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2007.08.027     Document Type: Article

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