Figure 14
From: Transmission of drug-resistant bacteria in a hospital-community model stratified by patient risk
Values of \(\mathscr {R}_0^j\) calculated according to formula (39) before and after applying the interventions (a) introducing patient screening and thus increasing parameter \(\sigma\); (b) reducing transmission rate in the high-risk group and thus decreasing parameter \(\beta _2\); (c) reducing transmission rate population-wide and thus decreasing parameters \(\beta _1\) and \(\beta _2\) at the same rate. Hospital-community pairs are sorted in the same order as in 9. Each vertical dashed line indicates the first pair for which recalculated \(\mathscr {R}_0^j > 1\) – the greater the intervention, the closer the line is to the right. The size of markers is proportional to the average pair size \(PS_j\).
