Hospital-Community Interactions Foster Coexistence between Methicillin-Resistant Strains of Staphylococcus aureus
Figure 4
The blue area indicates the parameter combinations for which HA-MRSA and CA-MRSA coexist in the basic model.
The red area indicates co-existence in the age-structured model. Axes and parameter values are the same as in Figure 3. Note that in order to assure comparable transmissibility measures as y-axes in the homogeneous and heterogeneous models, we measure transmissibility as the single-admission reproductive number R0HA,H – i.e. the dominant eigenvalue of the next-generation matrix of the hospital [41], [42] (see Table 1).