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Informed Switching Strongly Decreases the Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance in Hospital Wards

Antibiotic resistant nosocomial infections are an important cause of mortality and morbidity in hospitals. Antibiotic cycling has been proposed to contain this spread by a coordinated use of different antibiotics. Theoretical work, however, suggests that often the random deployment of drugs (“mixing...

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Autores principales: Kouyos, Roger D., Abel zur Wiesch, Pia, Bonhoeffer, Sebastian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21390265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001094