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HIV can infect different cell populations such as CD4+ T cells and macrophages. In this paper, we study the global property of the solution of an HIV model with two target cell populations. The model includes general nonlinear rates of viral infection and cell death. For each class of target cells, the time delay between viral entry into cells and viral production is included in the model. We obtain the basic reproductive number of the model, which is shown to provide a threshold condition determining the long-term behavior of the solution of the model. Specifically, we show that the infection-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable when the basic reproductive number is less than or equal to 1, and that the infected equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable when the basic reproductive number is greater than 1. We also extend the model with two target cell populations to a general model with n populations. Similar global properties are obtained for the general model. Numerical simulations are performed to illustrate the stability results and to evaluate the relative contribution to viral production from the two cell populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes and analyzes an adaptive immunity HIV infection model. The model describes the interaction between healthy CD 4 + T cells, silent (latent) infected cells, active infected cells, free HIV particles, Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and antibodies. The healthy CD 4 + T cells can be infected when they are contacted by one of the following: (i) free HIV particles, and this is known as virus-to-cell (VTC) transmission (ii) silent infected cells, and we call this mode of infection as silent HIV-infected cell-to-cell (CTC) transmission, and (iii) active infected cells, and we call this mechanism active HIV-infected CTC transmission. The incidence rates of the healthy CD 4 + T cells with free HIV particles, silent infected cells, and active infected cells are given by general functions. Moreover, the production/proliferation and removal/death rates of all compartments are represented by general functions. The model is an improvement of the existing HIV infection models which have neglected the incidence between the silent infected cells and healthy CD 4 + T cells. We first show that the model is well-posed. Then, we show that the model has five equilibria and their existence are governed by five threshold parameters. Under a set of conditions on the general functions and the threshold parameters, we have proven the global asymptotic stability of all equilibria by using Lyapunov's method. We have illustrated the theoretical results via numerical simulations. We have studied the effect of CTC transmission on the dynamical behavior of the system. We have shown that inclusion of CTC transmission decreases the concentration of the healthy CD4 + T cells and increases the concentrations of the infected cells and free HIV particles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]