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. 2013 Jan 28;8(1):e55017. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055017

Figure 6. Comparison between experimental, analytical and numerical results for the NTM-infection case.

Figure 6

Cumulative number of patients undergoing active NTM-infection. Experimental data from [23] (Inline graphic for infliximab-treated patients and Inline graphic for etanercept-treated patients) are compared with the approximated analytical solution (see Eq. Inline graphic, solid curves) and with data from numerical simulation (dashed curves). The parameters used to draw the analytical curves correspond to the best-fit coefficient and are reported in Table Inline graphic. Notice that here we consider the extensive number of patients affected by NTM over the whole population of treated patients, according to experimental results.