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Experiment ID
247
Pathogen
Salmonella nontyphoid
Agent Strain
strain 533
Contains Preferred Model
No
Reference
Meynell, G. G., & Meynell, E. W. (1958). The growth of micro-organisms in vivo with particular reference to the relation between dose and latent period. The Journal of Hygiene, 56(3). https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022172400037827
Exposure Route
intraperitoneal
Response
death
Host type
mice
# of Doses
11.00
Dose Units
CFU
Μodel
beta-Poisson
a
6.21E-02
N50
3.46E+07
LD50/ID50
3.46E+07
Description
Mice/ Salmonella strain 533 data 
Dose Dead Survived Total
603 6 36 42
1910 3 39 42
6030 7 35 42
19100 5 42 47
60300 6 34 40
191000 3 29 32
603000 6 20 26
1910000 7 7 14
6030000 7 5 12
1.91E+07 10 2 12
6.03E+07 13 0 13

 

Goodness of fit and model selection
Model Deviance Δ Degrees 
of freedom		 χ20.95,1 
p-value 		χ20.95,m-k 
p-value
Exponential 193 146 10 3.84 
0 		18.3 
0
Beta Poisson 47.5 9 16.9 
3.22e-07
Neither the exponential nor beta-Poisson fits well; beta-Poisson is less bad.

 

Optimized parameters for the beta-Poisson model, from 10000 bootstrap iterations
Parameter MLE estimate Percentiles
0.5% 2.5% 5% 95% 97.5% 99.5%
α 6.21E-02 3.53E-02 4.06E-02 4.32E-02 1.09E-01 1.25E-01 1.80E-01
N50 3.46E+07 9.76E+05 1.69E+06 2.40E+06 9.41E+08 2.13E+09 1.34E+10

 

Parameter scatter plot for beta Poisson model ellipses signify the 0.9, 0.95 and 0.99 confidence of the parameters.

beta Poisson model plot, with confidence bounds around optimized model

References

  • Meynell, G. G., & Meynell, E. W. (1958). The growth of micro-organisms in vivo with particular reference to the relation between dose and latent period. The Journal of Hygiene, 56(3). https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022172400037827