Eliah Aronoff-Spencer

PLOS ONE, Aug 2023 Purpose Digital methods to augment traditional contact tracing approaches were developed and deployed globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. These “Exposure Notification (EN)” systems present new opportunities to support public health interventions. To date, there have been attempts to model the impact of such systems, yet no reports have explored the value of real-time system data for predictive epidemiological modeling.

1 Background Vancomycin is a glycopeptide antibiotic that has been utilized for over half a century to treat patients infected with gram-positive infections, including those caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) [1, 2]. Despite the emergence of alternative antimicrobials, vancomycin continues to be the first line for the treatment of MRSA due to its proven clinical effectiveness and its affordable price [3].