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. 2018 May 14;13(5):e0197111. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197111

Fig 1. Impact of antibiotic characteristics on acquisition of ARB.

Fig 1

Increase in incidence of acquisition (left axis) of (A) strain ARB-L and (B) strain ARB-H relative to no antibiotic impact, and ARB acquisitions per 100,000 patient days (PD) (right axis) for various values of an antibiotic's impact on vulnerability (V) of susceptible patients and on contagiousness (C) of colonized patients. In the simulated scenario 40% of admissions receive antibiotics and 1% of patients are colonized on admission. Note that when V = 1 and C = 1, antibiotics have no effect on acquisition, or, alternatively, no patients are receiving antibiotics.