Abstract
We derive models of the effects of periodic, discrete dosing or constant dosing of antibiotics on a bacterial population whose growth is checked by nutrient-limitation and possibly by host defenses. Mathematically rigorous results providing sufficient conditions for treatment success, i.e. the elimination of the bacteria, as well as for treatment failure, are obtained. Our models can exhibit bi-stability where the infection-free state and an infection-state are locally stable when antibiotic dosing is marginal. In this case, treatment success may occur only for sub-threshold level infections.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 229-263 |
Number of pages | 35 |
Journal | Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2006 |
Keywords
- Antibiotic
- Infection
- Pharmacodynamics
- Pharmacokinetics
- Plasmid
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Modeling and Simulation
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Immunology and Microbiology
- Applied Mathematics