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Table 2 Model results on distribution of new colonizations by disease state of contact

From: Modeling the transmission of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a dynamic agent-based simulation

Place/Activity

Colonization incidence (per 1000 person-years)

Due to contact with colonized individual

Due to contact with infected individual

Household

49.9

0.976

School/Daycare

12.3

0.072

Hospital

6.1

0.024

Athletic activity

4.4

0.016

Jail

2.3

0.015

College dorm

1.1

0.010

Nursing home

1.0

0.009

Workplace

0.1

0.007