Author/Authors :
Petra Gastmeier، نويسنده , , Sabine Stamm-Balderjahn، نويسنده , , Sonja Hansen، نويسنده , , Irina Zuschneid، نويسنده , , Dorit Sohr، نويسنده , , Michael Behnke، نويسنده , , Ralf-Peter Vonberg، نويسنده , , Henning Rüden، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The outbreak database (http://www.outbreak-database.com), containing 1561 records of nosocomial outbreaks published in the medical literature in a systematic format, was used to identify the most frequent outbreak sources for the entire database as well as for specific outbreak pathogens. Overall, in 37.1%, no source was identified. The main sources identified were index patients (40.3%), followed by equipment and devices (21.1%), environment (19.8%), and personnel (15.8%).
