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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Egile Nagusiak: McBryde, E, Pettitt, A, Cooper, B, McElwain, D
Formatua: Journal article
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: 2007