Characterizing an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci using hidden Markov models

Background. Antibiotic-resistant nosocomial pathogens can arise in epidemic clusters or sporadically. Genotyping is commonly used to distinguish epidemic from sporadic vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). We compare this to a statistical method to determine the transmission characteristics of VRE...

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Main Authors: McBryde, E.S, Pettitt, A.N, Cooper, B.S, McElwain, D.L.S
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2007
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2373397/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17360254
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2007.0224
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