¹Universidad de Nariño, Pasto, Colombia. Email: edbargun@udenar.edu.co
²Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D. F, México. Email: lesteva@lya.fciencias.unam.mx

El propósito de este estudio es evaluar el impacto de la respuesta de las células T y los macrófagos en el control de Mtb dentro del granuloma. Con este fin, proponemos un sistema de ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias para modelar la interacción entre macrófagos no infectados, macrófagos infectados, células T y bacilos de Mtb en el granuloma.

Palabras clave: Ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias, soluciones deequilibrio, tuberculosis, inmunología.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the response of T cells and macrophages in the control of Mtb into the granuloma. To this end, we propose a system of ordinary differential equations to model the interaction among uninfected macrophages, infected macrophages, T cells and Mtb bacilli into the granuloma.

Key words: Ordinary Differential Equations, Equilibrium Solutions, Tuberculosis, Immunology.

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