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Although quasi-epidemic transmission would seem to be a special case, it may in fact be the rule for many hospital-acquired bacteria because it is the natural endpoint of the interplay between economics and ecology [30].
Total costs are minimized by spending just enough to eliminate (or nearly eliminate) the pathogen; thus, quasi-epidemic transmission is the economic optimum [30].
If each case in a population generates approximately one new case (a situation we call “quasi-epidemic” transmission), each instance of heterospecific transmission will initiate a long chain of horizontal transmission that eventually burns out.
Thus, bacterial populations are some combination of zoonotic, quasi-epidemic, and epidemic strains.
A corollary is that banning agricultural antibiotic use would have maximal benefits if horizontal transmission is quasi-epidemic [24].