Epidemiology of multidrug resistant bacterial organisms and Clostridium difficile in German hospitals in 2014: Results from a nationwide one-day point prevalence of 329 German hospitals

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 5 Mean prevalence of the most prevalent MDROs divided by level of care

Level of care	MRSA		VRE		3MRGN-EC		3MRGN-KS		CD
Level of care	n	[95 % CI]*	n	[95 % CI]*	n	[95 % CI]*	n	[95 % CI]*	n	[95 % CI]*
Tertiary	331	1.75 [1.40-2.11]	128	0.64 [0.33-0.94]	202	1.13 [0.86-1.41]	74	0.32 [0.21-0.43]	189	0.90[0.68-1.12]
Secondary	271	1.61 [1.16-2.07]	42	0.44 [-0.03-0.90]	132	1.10 [0.57-1.64]	56	0.43 [0.18-0.69]	107	0.86 [0.38-1.35]
Primary	564	1.62 [1.40-1.85]	37	0.10 [0.05-0.14]	189	0.53 [0.43-0.63]	40	0.12 [0.07-0.17]	210	0.65 [0.53-0.78]
Total	1166	1.64 [1.46-1.82]	207	0.25 [0.13-0.37]	523	0.75 [0.60-0.89]	170	0.22 [0.15-0.29]	506	0.74 [0.60-0.88]