Spread of MRSA bacterium in populations
Eva van Tegelen
Supervisor TU Delft: Kees Vuik
Supervisor
Public Health of Erasmus MC: Sake de Vlas
start of the project: November 2021
The Master project has been finished in July 2022
by the completion of the
Masters Thesis
and a final
presentation
has been given.
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alumnipage.
Summary of the master project:
MRSA is known as the hospital bacterium because it is mainly found in the
health care can cause outbreaks hospitals. There is already a lot of research
done on the spread of the bacterium within hospitals, but much
less to the distribution within the general population. In this project
individual-based modeling (IBM) will be used to disseminate,
implement and study the bacterium within a simulated population.
Think of a population in which several households, schools and
hospitals are located. There are several variants of the MRSA bacteria
(think of degree of infectiousness and antibiotic resistance) and in
different countries, other variants seem to be successful. By the
distribution of these variants, each with different properties
simulating with the help of a model, we hope to gain insight into which
situation which MRSA bacteria is successful. Here are two links
added with extra info about
Individual-Based
Modeling and
MRSA.
This work is done in collaboration with Prof. Sake de Vlas in the
department
Public Health of Erasmus MC.
Contact information:
Kees
Vuik
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