Table 1 Theoretical percentage of cells infected with a given number of viral particles at different multiplicities of infection, as determined by the Poisson distribution, with 100% being all infected cells.
From: Characterization of viroplasm formation during the early stages of rotavirus infection
Multiplicity of infection | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of infectious viral particles/cell | 0.1 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 10 |
1 | 95.1* | 77.1 | 22.4 | 0.05 |
2 | 4.7 | 19.3 | 27.9 | 0.2 |
3 | 0.2 | 3.2 | 23.3 | 0.8 |
4 | 0.003 | 0.4 | 14.6 | 1.9 |
5 | 0† | 0.04 | 7.3 | 3.8 |
6 | 0† | 0.003 | 3.0 | 6.3 |
7 | 0† | 0.0002 | 1.1 | 9.0 |
8 | 0† | 0† | 0.3 | 11.3 |
9 | 0† | 0† | 0.09 | 12.5 |
10 | 0† | 0† | 0.02 | 12.5 |
11 | 0† | 0† | 0.005 | 11.4 |
12 | 0† | 0† | 0.001 | 9.5 |
13 | 0† | 0† | 0.0002 | 7.3 |
14 | 0† | 0† | 0† | 5.2 |
≥15 | 0† | 0† | 0† | 8.3 |
% of total cells infected | 9.5 | 39.3 | 91.8 | 99.8 |