Identifying the effect of patient sharing on between-hospital genetic differentiation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Table 1 Parameter values for coalescent simulations

Model	Migration rate between hospitals	Community contribution
Model	Migration rate between hospitals	C _from ^a	C _to
1	Empirical patient sharing between hospitals	50 %	3 %
2	Empirical patient sharing between hospitals	5 %	1 %
3	One-100th of empirical patient sharing between hospitals	0.5 %	0.03 %
4	One-100th of empirical patient sharing between hospitals	0.05 %	0.01 %

^a C _from is the proportion of patients in each hospital that are from the community, and C _to is the proportion of infections in the community that are from each hospital

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