Probability of resistance evolution for exponentially growing virus in the host.

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Chemotherapy for tumor and pathogenic virus often faces an emergence of resistant mutants, which may lead to medication failure. Here we study the risk of resistance to evolve in a virus population which grows exponentially. We assume that infected cells experience a "proliferation event" of virus at a random time and that the number of newly infected cells from an infected cell follows a Poisson distribution....

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