Table 1 Calibration and validation data for the HIV and HIV ULTRIO Plus NAT Assay
Calibration data | |
 HIV viral RNA load data | |
  \(t_w\) | 11 days [20] |
  \(t_p\) | 17 days [20] |
  \(t_s\) | 61 days [20] |
  \(VL(t_p)\) | 6.8 \(\log _{10}\) copies/ml [20] |
  \(VL(t_s)\) | 5.1 \(\log _{10}\) copies/ml [20] |
  \(\lambda \) | 0.85 days [10] |
  \(\chi \) | 2 copies/particle [28] |
 Test sensitivity data | |
  \(P(T^+(16);N_I(16) =1, \tau = t_w)\) | 0.88 [22] |
Calibrated model parameters | |
 \(C_0\) | 9.000 |
 \(C_w\) | \(1.096 \times 10^8\) |
 a | 1.980 |
 b | 1.730 |
Validation data | |
 \(Sens(n=1; N_I(1) = 1)\) | (99.7–100%) [11] |
 \(Sens(n=16; N_I(16) =1)\) | (98.2–99.5%)) [11] |