title: Vancomycin-resistant enterococci outbreak, Germany, and calculation of outbreak start.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: analyse BioLab GmbH, Linz, Austria.
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sagel
authors.forename: Berit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schulte
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Heeg
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Borgmann
mesh_terms: 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