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. 2016 Apr 5;5:408. doi: 10.1186/s40064-016-2017-8

Table 2.

Interpretation and considered values of the parameters

Parameter Description Value References
βS Growth rate of sensitive bacteria 0.8 day−1 Mondragón et al. (2014)
(1-c)βS,0<c<1 Growth rate of resistant bacteria 0.4–0.1 day−1 Mondragón et al. (2014)-hypothesis
k Growth rate of immune cells 0.6 day−1 Pugliese and Gandolfi (2008)
η Rate of bacteria destroyed by immune cells 0.3 day−1 Pugliese and Gandolfi (2008)
ω Rate to the amount of present bacteria of carrying capacity of immune cells 1 Hypothesis
T Carrying capacity of bacteria 109 bacteria Alavez et al. (2006)
α1¯ Mutation rate of INH 10−6 mut×gen Coll (2009)
α2¯ Mutation rate of PZA 0 Mondragón et al. (2014)
d1¯ Elimination rate of sensitive bacteria due INH 0.0039 day−1 Zhang (2009)
d2¯ Elimination rate of sensitive bacteria due PZA 0.0001625 day−1 Alavez et al. (2006)
δ1 Daily dose of INH 5 mg/kg/day Coll (2009)
δ2 Daily dose of ZPA 35–20 mg/kg/day Coll (2009)
μ1 Uptake rate of INH 0.06 day−1 Esteva et al. (2011)
μ2 Uptake rate of PZA 0.03 day−1 Esteva et al. (2011)

Datas are deduced from the literature

The values obtained from this table are that (i) in the first case, A=0.260674, B=0.571428 A<B and so, E2=0,0.5714,0.5714,1,,1 is LAS. (ii) in the second case, A=0.334538, B=0.25 A>B and so, E3=0.3337,0.0008,0.3345,1,1,,1 is LAS

Among the treatment regimen recommended by WHO includes isoniazid (INH) and pyrazinamide (PZA) for some bacterial infectious (such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Coll 2009)