Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Research
Quantifying Transmission of Clostridium difficile within and outside Healthcare Settings
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Figure 1. Compartmental model structure for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) within each setting (hospital, long-term care facility, and community). Patients are classified as not receiving antimicrobial drugs (N), are receiving antimicrobial drugs (A), having a recent history of receiving antimicrobial drugs (O), uncolonized (U), asymptomatically colonized (C), symptomatically infected (CDI), or colonized and subject to recurrence (RC) of CDI. Arrows indicate changes in individual epidemiologic status. Subscripts indicate primary, secondary, or tertiary CDI.