A Metapopulation Model to Assess the Capacity of Spread of Meticillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in Humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Porphyre, Thibaud ^a,b   Giotis, Efstathios Stamatios ^a,c   Lloyd, David Hugh ^a   Stärk, Katharina Dorothea Clementine ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERADICATION THERAPY; HUMAN; METAPOPULATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 84868146639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047504     Document Type: Article

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