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Effectiveness of infection control strategies against intra- and inter-hospital transmission of multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae -- insights from a multi-level mathematical network model

2016/22/Z/ST1/00690

Keywords:

Network modelling multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae transmission dynamics infection control healthcare network

Descriptors:

  • ST1_18: Control theory and optimisation
  • NZ6_4: Bacteriology
  • ST1_16: Numerical analysis

Panel:

ST1 - Mathematics: all areas of mathematics, pure and applied, as well as mathematical foundations of computer science, physics and statistics

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Matematyki, Informatyki i Mechaniki

woj. mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Monika Piotrowska 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 9

Call: UNISONO - announced on 2016-06-15

Amount awarded: 1 047 068 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2017-06-23

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-06-22

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. urządzenie wielofunkcyjne laserowe (A4, kolor).
  2. Eppendorf Research® plus (EU-IVD), 8-kanałowa, zmienna.
  3. Laptopy (2 szt.) (11 000 PLN)
  4. Kit kalibracyjny dla probówek 18 mm.
  5. Densytometr DEN-1B z adapterem A-16 i kalibracją.
  6. Monitor (730 PLN)
  7. Worteks V-1 plus.

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (8)
  1. Impact of inter-hospital transfers on the prevalence of resistant pathogens in a hospital-community system
    Authors:
    M.J. Piotrowska, K. Sakowski, A. Lonc, H. Tahir, M.E. Kretzschmar
    Academic press:
    Epidemics (rok: 2020, tom: 33, strony: 100408), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.epidem.2020.100408 - link to the publication
  2. The effect of redirected patient flows in combination with targeted infection control measures on the spread of multidrugresistant Enterobacteriaceae in the German healthcare system: a mathematical modelling approach
    Authors:
    Piotrowska, M.J., Sakowski, K., Horn, J., Mikolajczyk, R., Karch, A.
    Academic press:
    Clinical Microbiology and Infection , Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Submitted
  3. Analysis of the AOK Plus data and derived hospital network
    Authors:
    A. Lonc, M.J. Piotrowska, K. Sakowski
    Academic press:
    Mathematica Applicanda (rok: 2019, tom: 47, strony: 127-139), Wydawca: Polskie towarzystwo Mateamatyczne
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.14708/ma.v47i1.6497 - link to the publication
  4. Interventions to reduce infections caused by multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MDR-E): A systematic review and meta-analysis
    Authors:
    Heyam Atamna-Mawassi, Maayan Huberman-Samuel, Shimrit Hershcovitz, Nitzan Karny-Epstein, Axel Kola, Luis Eduardo López Cortés, Leonard Leibovici, Dafna Yahav
    Academic press:
    Journal of Infection (rok: 2021, tom: 83, strony: 156-166), Wydawca: ELSEVIER
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.jinf.2021.05.005 - link to the publication
  5. Relevance of intra-hospital patient movements for the spread of healthcare-associated infections within hospitals - a mathematical modeling study
    Authors:
    Hannan Tahir, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Axel Kola, Dafna Yahav, André Karch, Hanjue Xia, Johannes Horn, Konrad Sakowski, Monika J. Piotrowska, Leonard Leibovici, Rafael T. Mikolajczyk, Mirjam E. Kretzschmar
    Academic press:
    PLOS Computational Biology (rok: 2021, tom: 17(2), strony: e1008600), Wydawca: Public Library of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008600 - link to the publication
  6. Effects of incomplete inter-hospital network data on assessment of transmission dynamics of hospital-acquired infections
    Authors:
    Hanjue Xia; Johannes Horn; Monika J. Piotrowska; Konrad Sakowski; Mirjam Kretzschmar; Hannan Tahir; André Karch; Rafael Mikolajczyk
    Academic press:
    PLOS Computational Biology (rok: 2021, tom: 17(5), strony: e1008941), Wydawca: Public Library of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008941 - link to the publication
  7. Modelling pathogen spread in a healthcare network: indirect patient movements
    Authors:
    M.J. Piotrowska, K. Sakowski, A. Karch, H. Tahir, J. Horn, M.E. Kretzschmar, R.T. Mikolajczyk
    Academic press:
    PLOS Computational Biology (rok: 2020, tom: 16(11), strony: e1008442), Wydawca: Public Library of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008442 - link to the publication
  8. On the network suppression of the pathogen spread within the healthcare system
    Authors:
    M.J. Piotrowska, A. Puchalska, K. Sakowski
    Academic press:
    Applied Mathematics and Computation (rok: 2022, ), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Submitted