Table 1

Model parameters

Symbol
Description
Value
Source

μT
natural healthy cell death rate
0.02 day-1
[40–50 days] [19]
μP
productively infected cell death rate
0.5 day-1
[1–2 days] [20]
ST
supply rate of target cells
2 × 108 cells day-1
Estimated
ki
viral strain infectivity
varies
Estimated
ε21
single-point mutation rate
2.5 × 10-5
see Appendix
f
probability of error free transcription
0.37
Implied by ε21

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