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UCLA develops new model to predict the spread of a 'super-bug' in L.A. county jail
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 28th, 2007
Reporting in the September issue of Nature Reviews Microbiology and currently online, Sally Blower, a professor of biomathematics at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, and colleagues constructed a simple model of the outbreak in order to assess its severity, predict the consequences of a catastrophic outbreak in the jail, and suggest effective interventions to stop or control it.
Blower was intrigued by the outbreak in the...
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