Modelling the transmission dynamics of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Beijing Tongren hospital.

ABSTRACT: Semi-professional volunteers work in many tertiary care hospitals in China as healthcare assistants. Proper infection control measures are needed to reduce nosocomial transmission involving volunteers. A compartmental model was constructed to describe the transmission characteristics of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the emergency ward (EW) and respiratory intensive care unit (RICU) for volunteers in Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing, China. The model consists of components describing uncolonized and colonized patients, uncontaminated and contaminated healthcare workers (HCWs), and uncontaminated and contaminated volunteers. The basic reproduction number (R(0)) was calculated, and the dependence of R(0) on various model parameters was analysed. Moreover, simulations o

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3215835 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature