Inference mechanistic models.

ΔDIC calculated as A) DIC target cell limitation model minus DIC immune control model, B) DIC immune control model minus DIC Ki67+ immune control model or DIC Env and Gag-specific immune control model and C) DIC CD8 control model minus DIC immune control models combining two or three immune populations. As a rule of thumb we say we cannot distinguish between two models when we find ΔDIC st model but the 2nd model is clearly better, if ΔDIC is greater than 10 essentially no support is found for the 1st model [90]. The model that predicts the experimental data best is the CD8+ T cell immune control model (in bold above).