TABLE 3.
Parameter | Value | Description |
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1.97 | Antibiotic clearance (1/hour) | |
13.66 | Growth rate of susceptible bacteria (1/hour) | |
4.99 | Growth rate of bacteria resistant from mutation (1/hour) | |
8.3 | Growth rate of bacteria semiresistant from mutation (1/hour) | |
3 × 108 | Carrying capacity (cells/milliliter) | |
0 | Bacterial influx rates (cells/hour) | |
0.8 | Bacterial efflux rate (1/hour) | |
27.14 | Bacterial killing rate in response to antibiotic 1 and antibiotic 2 (1/hour) | |
12.5, 100, 200 | Antibiotic concn where the killing action is half its maximum value (microgram/milliliter) |
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8.5 × 10−3 () | Mutation frequency of full resistance mutation (1/hour) | |
8.5 × 10−2 () | Mutation frequency of low resistance mutation (1/hour) |