Experiment ID
954
Pathogen
Contains Preferred Model
No
Reference
John, D. T., & Hoppe, K. L. (1990). Susceptibility of Wild Mammals to Infection with Naegleria fowleri. The Journal of Parasitology, 76, 6.
Exposure Route
intranasal
Response
death
Host type
A/J mice
# of Doses
4.00
Dose Units
no of trophozoites
Μodel
beta-Poisson
a
0.536
N50
422
LD50/ID50
422
Experiment Dataset
Description
Mice/Naegleria fowleri LEE strain data
Dose Dead Survived Total
1E+03 7 3 10
1E+04 8 2 10
1E+05 10 0 10
1E+06 10 0 10

 

Goodness of fit and model selection
Model Deviance Δ Degrees 
of freedom

χ20.95,1

 

χ20.95,m-k 
 
Exponential 11.28 9.64 3 3.84 7.81 
0.325
Beta Poisson 1.64 2 5.99 
0.177
Beta-Poisson is preferred to Exponential;
Beta-Poisson model plot
Beta-Poisson model plot