Jan Walter
Robert Koch Institute
20 Papers
85 Citations
Jan Walter is an academic researcher from Robert Koch Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Outbreak & Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 19 publications.
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Papers
Healthcare-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals in European Union/European Economic Area countries: an analysis of data from a point prevalence survey, 2011 to 2012.
Jan Walter,Sebastian Haller,Chantal Quinten,Tommi Kärki,Benedikt Zacher,Tim Eckmanns,Muna Abu Sin,Diamantis Plachouras,P. Kinross,Carl Suetens +9 more
TL;DR: The ECDC point prevalence survey in European Union/European Economic Area acute care hospitals was to acquire standardised healthcare-associated infections (HAI) data and provides a reference for future prevalence of HAPs at various settings.
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Application of a new methodology and R package reveals a high burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) in Germany compared to the average in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2011 to 2012
Benedikt Zacher,Sebastian Haller,Niklas Willrich,Jan Walter,Muna Abu Sin,Alessandro Cassini,Diamantis Plachouras,Carl Suetens,Michael Behnke,Petra Gastmeier,Lothar H. Wieler,Tim Eckmanns +11 more
TL;DR: A new method and R package is developed that builds on the approach used by the Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe project to estimate the burden of HAIs for individual countries, and is applicable to other countries in or outside of the EU/EEA.
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Outbreak Related to a Nightclub, Germany, 2020.
Nadine Muller,Mareike Kunze,Fabienne Steitz,Neil J. Saad,Barbara Mühlemann,Jörn Beheim-Schwarzbach,Julia Schneider,Christian Drosten,Lukas Murajda,Sandra Kochs,Claudia Ruscher,Jan Walter,Nadine Zeitlmann,Victor M. Corman +13 more
TL;DR: An outbreak of coronavirus disease with 74 cases related to a nightclub in Germany in March 2020 illustrates the potential for superspreader events and corroborates current club closures.
Bugs That Can Resist Antibiotics but Not Men: Gender-Specific Differences in Notified Infections and Colonisations in Germany, 2010–2019
Michael Brandl,Michael Brandl,Alexandra Hoffmann,Niklas Willrich,Annicka Reuss,Felix Reichert,Felix Reichert,Jan Walter,Tim Eckmanns,Sebastian Haller +9 more
- 22 Apr 2021
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically analyzed data of infections and colonisations with AMR pathogens under mandatory surveillance in Germany to quantify gender-specific differences and found that men have a higher incidence rate of infections with anti-microbial-resistant (AMR) pathogens than women.
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Incidence of invasive meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in Germany, 2010 to 2014
TL;DR: This analysis corroborates previous findings that the incidence of invasive MRSA infections in Germany may be declining and calculates risk ratios between consecutive years, stratifying cases by sex, age and federal state of residence.