Spread of phage infection of bacteria in a petri dish

Don A. Jones; Hal L. Smith; Horst R. Thieme

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2016.21.471

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2016, Volume 21, Issue 2: 471-496. Doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2016.21.471

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Spread of phage infection of bacteria in a petri dish

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School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA 85287
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School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1804
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School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287

Received: January 2015

Revised: May 2015

Published: March 2016

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We extend our previous work on the spatial spread of phage infection of immobile bacteria on an agar coated plate by explicitly including loss of viruses by both adsorption to bacteria and by decay of free viruses and by including a distributed virus latent period and distributed burst size rather than fixed values of these key parameters. We extend earlier results on the spread of virus and on the existence of traveling wave solutions when the basic reproductive number for virus, $\mathcal{R}_0$, exceeds one and we compare the results with those obtained in earlier work. Finally, we formulate and analyze a model of multiple virus strains competing to infect a common bacterial host in a petri dish.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 92B05; Secondary: 35C07.

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