Table 1.
Parameter | Definition | Value | Units |
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f(t) | Activation function | see text | no unit |
α | Infection rate per B-cell virus |
fitted | day−1 virion−1 |
EB | Number of epithelial cells susceptible to−1B-cell virus |
see text | cells |
Vb | Number of virus released by B cells |
7.3 × 104 (Hadinoto et al., 2009) |
virions |
β | Infection rate per epithelial-cell virus |
fitted | ml day−1 virion−1 |
EE | Number of epithelial cells susceptible to epithelial-cell virus |
fitted | cells |
k | Rate of infected cells killed by effector T cells |
fitted, see text | cell−1 day−1 |
δ | Death rate of infected cells |
0.24 (Huynh and Adler, 2011a) |
day−1 |
θ | Rate of effector T cell proliferation stimulated by infected cells |
fitted | day−1 |
K | Number of infected cells when T cell proliferation is half maximal |
1000 (Huynh and Adler, 2011a) |
cells |
d | Death rate of effector T cells |
0.0095 (Hadinoto et al., 2008) |
day−1 |
P | Virus production rate by infected epithelial cells |
173 (Hadinoto et al., 2009) |
virions ml−1 day−1 cell−1 |
c | Death rate of virus | 2 (Shapiro et al., 2008) | day-1 |