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Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Research

Quantifying Transmission of Clostridium difficile within and outside Healthcare Settings

David P. DurhamComments to Author , Margaret A. Olsen, Erik R. Dubberke, Alison P. Galvani, and Jeffrey P. Townsend
Author affiliations: Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (D.P. Durham, A.P. Galvani, J.P. Townsend); Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (M.A. Olsen, E.R. Dubberke)

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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 stat

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.

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