Held Jointly with the 2004 SIAM Annual Meeting Oregon Convention Center Portland, Oregon |
Alan S. Perelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Virus infection is public health
problem of enormous magnitude, with over 40 million people infected with
HIV and 300 million infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). Influenza can
infect
as many as 20% of the world’s population each year. I will briefly
review the field of viral dynamics, emphasizing how mathematics how yielded
insights
into how these viruses behave within the body, and mathematical analysis
helped change the way virus infections are treated. I will provide examples
and models
of HIV infection, hepatitis C virus and influenza infection. The mathematics
currently used involves odes, pdes and delay equations. Problems of control
of infection and optimization of treatment
by drugs or better designed vaccines will be mentioned.
11/19/03
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