Generalized viral infection model with Caputo fractional derivative, cure rate and humoral immunity

Authors

  • Vahid Roomi Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University
  • Tohid Kasbi Gharahasanlou Imam Hossein University
  • Awat Rasouli Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University

Keywords:

fractional differential equations, Caputo fractional derivative, cure rate, global stability, Lyapunov function, humoral immunity

Abstract

Infectious diseases pose a significant threat to global health,
and mathematical modeling can be highly useful for understanding their
transmission dynamics. Fractional differential equations have emerged
as a powerful tool for modeling complex systems with memory and longterm
interactions. In this paper, we provide a mathematical model of
generalized viral infection with cure rate via FDEs. The basic reproduction
number will be obtained and positivity and uniformly boundedness
of solutions will be controlled. Three equilibrium points: infection-free
equilibrium, immune-free equilibrium and chronic equilibrium, will also
be calculated. It will be shown that the infection-free equilibrium is
globally asymptotically stable if the reproduction number is less than
one and if it is more than one, within certain conditions on humoral immune
response reproduction rate, then the immune-free and the chronic
equilibria are globally asymptotically stable. Finally, numerical simulations
will be presented to establish the analytical calculations.

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Published

2025-11-09

Issue

Section

Vol. 19, No. 7, (2025)