Modeling the regional spread and control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 668-673

  Lee, Bruce Y ^a,b   Yilmaz, S Levent ^a   Wong, Kim F ^a   Bartsch, Sarah M ^a,b   Eubank, Stephen ^c   Song, Yeohan ^a,b   Avery, Taliser R ^d   Christie, Richard ^a   Brown, Shawn T ^a,e   Epstein, Joshua M ^f   Parker, Jon I ^f   Huang, Susan S ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care associated infections; Hospitals; Modeling; Simulation; Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY CARE; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

HEALTH CARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; MODELING; SIMULATION; VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CALIFORNIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PREVALENCE; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 84880890252     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2013.01.013     Document Type: Article

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