Fast hospital discharge rates blur within-hospital ‘transmission footprint’ in bacterial genomes, as showcased with Staphylococcus aureus
Fig 2
Examples of sampled transmission trees simulated based on hospital-driven transmission rates (scenarios HDT (a)–(c)).
Branch colors indicate the community (blue) and hospital (red). Tip labels denote the deme from which the sample was collected, with ’C’ indicating community and ’H’ indicating hospital. In all panels, the x-axis represents time, here with the unit being years. All trees shown were generated under the assumption that 0.1% of infected individuals from the community and 20% from the hospital were sampled.