Table 2.

Summary statistics of the estimated parameters

Parameter	Symbol	Mean (95% credibility interval)
Environmental contamination coefficient	α	6.4·10−4 (4.1·10−4, 9.2·10−4
Cross-transmission coefficient	β	7.1·10−3 (5.6·10−4, 1.7·10−2)
Probability to be colonized on admission (%)	f	0.3 (0.2, 0.5)
Fraction colonized (%)		1.7 (1.6, 1.9)
Test sensitivity (%)	ϕ	98.8 (95.6, 100)
Number of acquisitions		58 (45, 72)
Number of importations*		32 (24, 41)
Contributions
Environmental route (%)	$R_{\alpha }$	86.3 (71, 98.6)
Cross-transmission (%)	$R_{\beta }$	13.7 (1.4, 29)

*Colonizations prior to admission to the ward