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Transmission dynamics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a medical intensive care unit in India
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a global pathogen and an important but seldom investigated cause of morbidity and mortality in lower and middle-income countries where it can place a major burden on limited resources. Quantifying nosocomial transmission in resource-poor settings is difficult because molecular typing methods are prohibitively expensive. Mechanistic statistical models can overcome this problem with minimal cost. We analyse the transmission dynamics of MRSA ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS One Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 7
- Article number:
- e20604
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- Source identifiers:
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223877
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- English
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- pubs:223877
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- 2012-12-19
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- Christopher et al
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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- Copyright 2011 Christopher et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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