Figure 3.

Prevalence of MRSA infection. Numerical solutions: (a) the number of infectious patients when R₀ = 0.3 that MRSA is endemic when admission of colonized and infectious patients is present (dashed trace) and it dies out when there is no admission of colonized and infectious patients (solid trace): (b) the endemic number of infectious patients when R₀ = 1.7 while admission of colonized and infectious patients is present and absent (dashed and solid traces, respectively): (c) the prevalence of MRSA infection in the hospital when duration of treatment and probability of a successful treatment vary: and (d) the prevalence of MRSA infection when duration of contamination in HCWs and the number of required contacts from patients vary.