FIGURE 2. Comparison of theoretical viral load decay profiles with patient data.

Best-fit model predictions (representative) of viral load decay with _max = 1 (solid lines) and _max = 0 (dashed lines) compared with data (symbols) from patients 18 (a) and 35 (b)²³. Parameters employed (Supplementary Table S1) were V₀ = 8 10⁶ ml^-1, c = 3.8 d^-1, = 0.24 d^-1, = 0.982 and = 4.3 h for both _max = 1 and _max = 0 (a) and V₀ = 3.6 10⁵ ml^-1, c = 2.2 d^-1, = 0.16 d^-1, = 0.6 and = 6.2 h for _max = 1, and V₀ = 3.5 10⁵ ml^-1, c = 3.1 d^-1, = 0.31 d^-1, = 0.5 and = 7.2 h for _max = 0 (b). Note that the two fits overlap in a.