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. 2017 Sep 15;7:11693. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-10198-0

Table 4.

Sensitivity analysis for different values of Hill coefficients nR for ribavirin in model C.

nF = 1 nF = 3.5
nR = 2 nR = 3 nR = 4 nR = 1 nR = 2 nR = 3 nR = 4
R 0 5.13 (12) 4.66 (11) 5.29 (12) 4.77 (12) 5.29 (10) 4.88 (9) 5.72 (13)
δ I (/day) 0.58 (14) 0.65 (14) 0.56 (13) 0.63 (14) 0.56 (15) 0.62 (10) 0.52 (14)
p (FFU/day) 1.88 (20) 2.02 (19) 1.89 (17) 1.86 (21) 1.84 (17) 2.04 (18) 1.84 (18)
α (×10−4) 18.2 (15) 17.5 (14) 18.5 (15) 18.2 (14) 1.81 (14) 16.5 (15) 17.2 (15)
s x (U/l) 67.1 (6) 67.2 (6) 68.1 (6) 66.9 (6) 66.6 (6) 67.4 (6) 67.9 (6)
ED50F (mg/kg) 3.46 (49) 4.88 (47) 3.43 (46) 5.61 (30) 38.6 (13) 43.3 (9) 39.2 (14)
ED50R (mg/kg) 26.2 (15) 40.9 (11) 51.4 (11) 44.9 (14) 26 (15) 43.3 (13) 54 (11)
σ a (log10 FFU/ml) 0.698 (7) 0.683 (8) 0.679 (7) 0.74 (7) 0.731 (7) 0.71 (7) 0.678 (7)
σ b (U/l) 0.219 (11) 0.221 (11) 0.238 (11) 0.22 (11) 0.226 (11) 0.22 (11) 0.238 (11)
BIC 2193.73 2133.3 2146.5 2135.41 2136.98 2137.46 2145.93

For favipiravir, a Hill coefficient of nF = 1 and nF = 3.544 was chosen.

The mean of the estimated parameters with their respective relative standard errors (in %) are shown. For the analysis, we expressed the dose-dependent- efficacies as: ε=DFnF/(DFnF+(ED50F)nF) for favipiravir, and γ=DRnR/(DRnR+(ED50R)nR) for ribavirin. This sensitivity analysis was carried out with fixed T 0 = 106 cells/ml and V 0 = 10 FFU/ml.