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On Being the Right Size: The Impact of Population Size and Stochastic Effects on the Evolution of Drug Resistance in Hospitals and the Community

The evolution of drug resistant bacteria is a severe public health problem, both in hospitals and in the community. Currently, some countries aim at concentrating highly specialized services in large hospitals in order to improve patient outcomes. Emergent resistant strains often originate in health...

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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/PMC3077359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21533212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1001334