Small distances can keep bacteria at bay for days

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3556-3560

  Van Bunnik, Bram A D ^a,b   Ssematimba, Amos ^a   Hagenaars, Thomas J ^a   Nodelijk, Gonnie ^a   Haverkate, Manon R ^c   M Bonten, Marc J ^c   Hayden, Mary K ^d   Weinstein, Robert A ^d,e   Bootsma, Martin C J ^c,f   De Jong, Mart C M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Campylobacter jejuni; Diffusion model; Escherichia coli; Transmission experiment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DIFFUSION MODEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRANSMISSION EXPERIMENT;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CHICKENS; CROSS INFECTION; DIFFUSION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 84895836265     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310043111     Document Type: Article

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