Table 1.
ESBL prevalence over time, including bacterial species and ESBL genes.
Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of screened patients.
Table 3.
ESBL-E prevalence within the different medical specialties.
Fig 1.
ESBL-E prevalence in relation with the duration of hospitalisation (patients in day-care were excluded).
Vertical bars represent the 95% confidence intervals.
Fig 2.
AFLP patterns from all ESBL-E E. coli, E. cloacae complex and K. pneumonia eligible for cluster analyses.
Strains clustering with a similarity between 90 and 100% were defined as identical strains. Strains clustering with a similarity above 35% were defined as different strains of the same species and strains clustering with a similarity below 35% were defined as different species. Identical strains are indicated in color. Each strain was coded with the number of the year in combination with a letter. * three ESBL positive strains cultured in a sample from patient 2012-N showed fenotypic differences. Therefore AFLP analyses was performed from all three samples.
Fig 3.
Proportion of CTX-M-1 like ESBL genes over time.
The vertical bars represent the percentage of CTX-M-1 like ESBL genes divided by the total number of ESBL genes. The line represents the logarithmic trendline.