Table 1 Results of the ODE model fit parameters. Parameter \(c\)* was estimated using linear regression via scikit-learn’s least squares method (Version 1.3.0). A first pass for fitting βm, ε, p and tir was done using the curve fit feature Berkeley Madonna (Version 8.3.18) using the values for the other parameters given in Sect. 2.2.1. Parameters βm, p, and ε were fit in Python with 95% confidence intervals in brackets. #Value for p for M1 was estimated without confidence. The upper bound for the confidence interval was infinity. tir could not be fit with confidence, hence we had to base our estimates with Berkeley Madonna. \({\beta}_{e}=1\times{10}^{-11}\) mL/virions/day (\(4.17\times{10}^{-13}\) mL/virions/hour).

From: Theoretical modeling of hepatitis C acute infection in liver-humanized mice support pre-clinical assessment of candidate viruses for controlled-human-infection studies

Parameter

Symbol [unit]

ODE estimates

 

M1

M2

M3

M4

M5

Median

[Min, Max]

Virion clearance rate

\(c\)*

[1/hr]

0.93

0.87

0.86

0.85

0.90

0.87

[0.85, 0.93]

Infection rate of virions produced by the mouse

βm (10− 11)

[mL/virions/hr]

3.2

[0.8–6.5]

5.1

[1.86–13.1]

6.5

[2.3–17.8]

10.7

[5.2–22.5]

2.3

[0.8-5.0]

5.1

[2.3, 10.7]

Virion production rate before tir

p

[virions/cell/hr]

15.4#

11.2

[4.7–28.9]

8.1

[3.1–21.5]

8.3

[4.0-16.7]

27.1

[10.3–81.3]

11.2

[8.1, 27.1]

Time at virion production drops

tir

[day]

3.5

3.0

2.8

1.7

2.8

2.8

[1.7, 3.5]

Efficacy in blocking viral production

ε

0.92

[0.88–0.96]

0.92

[0.87–0.95]

0.91

[0.85–0.94]

0.91

[0.85–0.94]

0.95

[0.92–0.97]

0.92

[0.91, 0.95]

Virion production rate after tir

p (1-ε)

[virions/cell/hr]

1.23

0.90

0.73

0.75

1.36

0.90

[0.73, 1.36]