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00:01 Okay, so we have this new drug that you're testing, and they find that 30 % of bacteria that have been killed, sorry, that when 30 % of the bacteria have been killed, half the patients will see their numbers will see, oh, sorry, not their numbers, but they'll see a drop in burden.
00:21 In this case, we'll see their infections drop to a level where their immune systems can take care of it, meaning that 30 % mortality of the bacteria, which if we look in the graph, the moraxcella graph, 30 % mortality is roughly, let's say it's under 40.
00:47 We'll just go with 40.
00:49 The effective dose of your drug is going to be 40 millimolar concentration of the drug.
00:58 That's what gets you 30%, or at least a little over 30%.
01:03 In fact, let's actually be a little more specific.
01:10 35 millimolar.
01:13 Actually, let's be even more specific.
01:20 And if you look at the graph, 30 millimolar of the drug gets you 20 % mortality.
01:25 40 millimolar of the drug gets you 35 % of the mortality, right? so, theoretically, well, it's kind of a...
01:54 Theoretically then that your 30 % mortality should be close to actually 37 millimolar...
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