Epidemiology and infection control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci at a German university hospital: A three-year retrospective cohort study

• Adrian Jochim-Vukosavic,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover, Germany

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• Frank Schwab,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité—University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

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• Leonard Knegendorf,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8469-1248

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• Dirk Schlüter,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover, Germany

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• Franz-Christoph Bange,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover, Germany

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• Ella Ebadi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ella Ebadi, Claas Baier

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover, Germany

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• Claas Baier

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ella Ebadi, Claas Baier

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: baier.claas@mh-hannover.de

  Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3895-5446

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