Abstract
The antigenic properties of the influenza A virus drift slowly due to point mutations in the viral genome. The drift is enhanced by the partial immunity of the host population to the new viral strains. Assuming a one dimensional axis of antigenic types we develop a model for the drift and find that a traveling wave of disease prevalence move along the axis with a speed that depends on the immune surveillance in the population.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 421-424 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | ZAMM Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue number | SUPPL. 2 |
| State | Published - 1996 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computational Mechanics
- Applied Mathematics