Fig. 1

Network of 307 relationships in 114 out of 144 patients identified with VIM-PA. Thirty out of 144 patients did not have relationships to other case patients (20.8%). Edge colours represent different Erasmus MC departments; green represents the two adult ICU wards. Line shapes represent the different epidemiological relationships as described in Table 1: contiguous line = probable, dash line = possible A, solid line = possible B. The arrow shows the direction of the relationship