Fig. 1

Association between incidence density of hospital-acquired vancomycin resistant enterococci (ID HA-VRE) and antibiotic use density (DDD/100pd) of carbapenems (ATC-code J01DH, Spearman correlation coefficient r = 0.801, p < 0.001) and glycopeptides (ATC code J01XA, r = 0.76, p < 0.001) on 61 wards, 2014–2015, Berlin, Germany