Probabilistic transmission models incorporating sequencing data for healthcare-associated Clostridioides difficile outperform heuristic rules and identify strain-specific differences in transmission.

Fitting stochastic transmission models to electronic patient data can offer detailed insights into the transmission of healthcare-associated infections and improve infection control. Pathogen whole-genome sequencing may improve the precision of model inferences, but computational constraints have li...

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Main Authors: David W Eyre, Mirjam Laager, A Sarah Walker, Ben S Cooper, Daniel J Wilson, CDC Modeling Infectious Diseases in Healthcare Program (MInD-Healthcare)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008417