Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2016
We report a comprehensive approach for outbreak investigations, including cluster analysis (Bernoulli model), an algorithm to build inferential models, and molecular techniques to confirm cases. Our approach may be an interesting tool to best exploit the large amount of unsystematically collected information available during outbreak investigations in healthcare settings.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014;35(6):732–735
These authors contributed equally to this article.