• Question: Hi Ceri, I would like to ask you one question about your job : How can maths be usefull to fight "superbugs" like MRSA?

    Asked by Rudy_perezz to Ceri on 10 Nov 2014.
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      Ceri Dare answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Hello Rudy, thanks for chatting earlier. I use maths to look at who is most likely to catch superbugs, and what things make people more likely to catch them (called ‘risk factors’). Then we work out if we can change the risk factors. For example, prescribing some antibiotics increases the chance that the patient will then go on to get a bad sort of diarrhoea called ‘Clostridium Difficile’.

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