Google Algorithm to Search Out Hospital Superbugs

January 04th, 2008 | Category: Tech Talk

Googling Yourself writes “Researchers in the UK plan to use Google’s PageRank algorithm to find how super-bugs like MRSA spread in a hospital setting. Previous studies have discovered how specific objects, like doctors’ neckties, can harbor infection, but little is known about the network

routes

by which bugs spread. Mathematician Simon Shepherd plans to build a matrix describing all interactions amidst society and objects in a hospital ward, based on observing normal daily activity.”

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