Figure 6. Comparison between experimental, analytical and numerical results for the NTM-infection case.
Cumulative number of patients undergoing active NTM-infection. Experimental data from [23] ( for infliximab-treated patients and
for etanercept-treated patients) are compared with the approximated analytical solution (see Eq.
, 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
. Notice that here we consider the extensive number of patients affected by NTM over the whole population of treated patients, according to experimental results.