Link between linear regression analysis and viral kinetic model estimates of the slope and length of viral growth (Phase I) and the slope of virus decay (Phase II).

The MLE parameters in Table 2 were used in the approximate solution [39] of Equations (4)–(7) to find estimates of , , and . The infected cell death rate () was found to be the slope of exponential virus decay. The intercept value (0 days p.i.) (Table 1) is the effective initial titer and is an estimate of the constant in Equation (2). Values of the slopes found via linear regression (Table 1) were converted from to for an accurate comparison.