Title
On Spread of Phage Infection of Bacteria in a Petri Dish.
Abstract
A reaction diffusion system with time delay is proposed for virus spread on bacteria immobilized on an agar-coated plate. The delay explicitly accounts for a virus latent period of fixed duration. An interval of possible spreading speeds for virus infection is established, and traveling wave solutions are shown to exist. Linear determinacy of spreading speed breaks down for some parameter values.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1137/110848360
SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
virus plaque,virus spread,traveling wave solution,speed of spread,linear determinacy
Traveling wave,Biological system,Mathematical analysis,Bacteria,Reaction–diffusion system,Determinacy,Mathematics,Petri dish
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
72
2
0036-1399
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.41
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Don Jones1165.62
Hal L. Smith211131.87
Horst R. Thieme31846.46
Gergely Röst4104.05