ArticleBulletin of mathematical biology2017
Antimicrobial Stewardship and Environmental Decontamination for the Control of Clostridium difficile Transmission in Healthcare Settings.
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- A review of epidemiological models of Clostridioides difficile transmission and control (2009-2021).Anaerobe · 2022Review
- Mathematically modeling the effect of touch frequency on the environmental transmission of Clostridioides difficile in healthcare settings.Mathematical biosciences · 2021Article
- Modeling Infectious Diseases in Healthcare Network (MInD-Healthcare) Framework for Describing and Reporting Multidrug-resistant Organism and Healthcare-Associated Infections Agent-based Modeling Methods.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020Article
- Comparing intervention strategies for reducing Clostridioides difficile transmission in acute healthcare settings: an agent-based modeling study.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
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- Metapopulation Model from Pathogen's Perspective: A Versatile Framework to Quantify Pathogen Transfer and Circulation between Environment and Hosts.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- EnABLe: An agent-based model to understand Listeria dynamics in food processing facilities.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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We implement an agent-based model for Clostridium difficile transmission in hospitals that accounts for several processes and individual factors including environmental and antibiotic heterogeneity in order to evaluate the efficacy of various control measures aimed at reducing environmental contamination and mitigating the effects of antibiotic use on transmission. In particular, we account for local contamination levels that contribute to the probability of colonization and we account for both the number and type of antibiotic treatments given to patients. Simulations illustrate the relative efficacy of several strategies for the reduction of nosocomial colonizations and nosocomial diseases.
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