Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

, Volume 73, Issue 7, pp 1503–1528 | Cite as

Modelling Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Dynamics in Oral Epithelium to Help Identify the Determinants of Lysis

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Abstract

Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) causes an economically important disease of cloven-hoofed livestock; of interest here is the difference in lytic behaviour that is observed in bovine epithelium. On the skin around the feet and tongue, the virus rapidly replicates, killing cells, and resulting in growing lesions, before eventually being cleared by the immune response. In contrast, there is usually minimal lysis in the soft palate, but virus may persist in tissue long after the animal has recovered from the disease. Persistence of virus has important implications for disease control, while identifying the determinant of lysis in epithelium is potentially important for the development of prophylactics. To help identify which of the differences between oral and pharyngeal epithelium are responsible for such dramatically divergent FMDV dynamics, a simple model has been developed, in which virus concentration is made explicit to allow the lytic behaviour of cells to be fully considered. Results suggest that localised structuring of what are fundamentally similar cells can induce a bifurcation in the behaviour of the system, explicitly whether infection can be sustained or results in mutual extinction, although parameter estimates indicate that more complex factors may be involved in maintaining viral persistence, or that there are as yet unquantified differences between the intrinsic properties of cells in these regions.

Keywords

Foot-and-mouth disease virus Epithelium Lysis Model 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Institute for Animal HealthPirbright LaboratorySurreyUK
  2. 2.Department of Mathematical SciencesLoughborough UniversityLeicestershireUK

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