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. 2019 Sep 23;8:153. doi: 10.1186/s13756-019-0604-5

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Fig. 1 — Timeline showing the number of cases and contacts during the VRE outbreak. Bar chart: number of patients that tested positive for a VRE outbreak-type isolate by AFLP (Y-axis, left); solid line: cumulative number of ward and room contacts traced (Y-axis, right); dotted line: room and ward contacts that tested negative for the VRE outbreak-type (Y-axis, right). One hundred thirty-nine patients were traced but lost to follow up. X-axis: week numbers in 2017. The 1st outbreak wave was from week 16–21, the 2nd outbreak wave from week 29–35