Showing papers by "Jesús R. Artalejo published in 2014"
TL;DR: New indicators of the dynamics of infectious disease spread in stochastic epidemic models, including both global system-oriented and individual-oriented descriptors are proposed, focusing on birth-and-death models and the basic SIR epidemic model.
18 citations
TL;DR: This work analyzes the dynamics of nosocomial infections in intensive care units (ICUs) by using a Markov chain model and investigates how changes in the system parameters affect to some important behavioral indicators of the spread of the pathogen.
Abstract: We analyze the dynamics of nosocomial infections in intensive care units (ICUs) by using a Markov chain model. Since population size in the ICU is small, in contrast to previous studies, we concentrate on the analytical solution rather than using simulation. We investigate how changes in the system parameters affect to some important behavioral indicators of the spread of the pathogen. We also present an exact measure of the number of secondary cases of infection produced by one colonized patient.
7 citations