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A mathematical model of bacteriophage predation on bacteria in a chemostat, introduced in Chapter. 1, is studied in detail. The delay arises due to the assumption of a fixed latent period for virus inside the infected cell. The main biological issues addressed are the persistence and extinction of bacteria and of bacteriophage(phage). From a mathematical perspective, we focus on bifurcation of equilibria and Hopf bifurcation from the coexistence equilibrium.
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Smith, H. (2011). Phage and Bacteria in a Chemostat. In: An Introduction to Delay Differential Equations with Applications to the Life Sciences. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 57. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7646-8_8
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