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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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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