in the last decade, along with the problem of nosocomial infections, multidrug-resistant bacteria in community and hospitals have soared. high frequencies of multidrug-resistant bacteria have been grouped under the acronym eskape: enterococcus faecium, staphylococcus aureus, klebsiella pneumoniae, acinetobacter baumannii, pseudomonas aeruginosa and enterobacter spp. the eskape pathogens are res...

BACKGROUND Bacterial species from the ESKAPE group (i.e. Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacter species) are frequently resistant to antibiotics. The purpose of this study was to monitor the incidence of ESKAPE pathogens at the intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care hospital in Monterrey, Mexico....

Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogens (Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species) are important etiologic agents of nosocomial infection that are frequently resistant to broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents. Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogens were collected from hospitalized patients in 11 Latin American countries from 2013 to 2015 as part of the Study...

Nanotechnology based therapeutic approaches are a promising strategy to target biofilm-related infections caused by ESKAPE pathogens.

Infections caused by potentially drug-resistant pathogens steadily increase in intensive care units (ICUs) and are a major cause of overall prevalence in hospitals. Resistance is likely because ICU patients often have complex illnesses and use many antibiotics.(1,2) Indeed, more than 70% of critically ill patients will be given an antimicrobial drug during their ICU stay.(1) In addition, infect...

Untreatable bacterial infections (“the post-antibiotic era”) are far more likely to emerge in companion animals than in food animals, and have already arrived in the form of the multi-drug resistant (MDR) ESKAPE pathogens, the scourge of hospitals. These highly resistant, and in some cases hospital-adapted pathogens, are Enterococcus faecium, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermediu...

UNLABELLED The ESKAPE (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species) pathogens cause an increasing number of nosocomial infections worldwide since they escape the inhibitory effect of the available antibiotics and the immune response. Here, we report the broad-spectrum and potent antibacterial activ...

The ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species) are the leading cause of nosocomial infections throughout the world. Most of them are multidrug resistant isolates, which is one of the greatest challenges in clinical practice. Multidrug resistance is amongst the top three threats ...

Copyright: © 2014 Tiwari V. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most important opportunistic pathogens described by Infectious Disease Society of America [1]. ...