
Immune System Modelling and Simulation
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fi ve pictures shown are arbitrarily chosen among successive
instants in the time sequence of the simulated infection. It is
interesting to observe the development of areas with higher
density of virus where infected cells have exploded and have
spread their viral content. Another noteworthy aspect of this
picture is the inhomogeneity in viral concentration resulting from
local competition with antibodies; as in the bacterial infection
example, this case shows how discrete models incorporating the
‘spatial’ scale are able to reproduce complex dynamics, where
small differences in the local distribution ...