Metapopulation ecology links antibiotic resistance, consumption and patient transfers in a network of hospital wards

  23 September 2019

Here, the authors used metapopulation ecology to explain variations in infection incidences of 17 ESKAPE pathogen variants in a network of 357 hospital wards… Their data establish that both antibiotic use and connectivity measurably influence hospital AMR and provide a ranking of key  antibiotics by their impact on AMR.

Further reading: bioRxiv
Author(s): Julie Teresa Shapiro, Gilles Leboucher, Anne-Florence Myard-Dury, Pascale Girardo, Anatole Luzatti, Mélissa Mary, Jean-François Sauzon, Bénédicte Lafay, Olivier Dauwalder, Frédéric Laurent, Gérard Lina, Christian Chidiac, Sandrine Couray-Targe, François Vandenesch, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Jean-Philippe Rasigade
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