Vancomycin-resistant enterococci outbreak, Germany, and calculation of outbreak start.
On the basis of a large outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a German university hospital, we estimated costs ( approximately 1 million Euros) that could have been avoided by early detection of the imminent outbreak. For this purpose, we demonstrate an easy-to-use statistical method.
Sagel
Ulrich
U
analyse BioLab GmbH, Linz, Austria.
Schulte
Berit
B
Heeg
Peter
P
Borgmann
Stefan
S
D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control; D016984:Enterococcus faecium / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D013997:Time Factors; D020713:Vancomycin Resistance