Skip to main content

Table 1 Model parameters

From: Transient antiretroviral therapy selecting for common HIV-1 mutations substantially accelerates the appearance of rare mutations

Symbol

Description

Value

Source

μ T

natural healthy cell death rate

0.02 day-1

[40–50 days] [19]

μ P

productively infected cell death rate

0.5 day-1

[1–2 days] [20]

S T

supply rate of target cells

2 × 108 cells day-1

Estimated

k i

viral strain infectivity

varies

Estimated

ε 21

single-point mutation rate

2.5 × 10-5

see Appendix

f

probability of error free transcription

0.37

Implied by ε21