ESKAPE and Beyond: The Burden of Coinfections in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Miguel Ángel Loyola-Cruz; Luis Uriel Gonzalez-Avila; Arturo Martínez-Trejo; Andres Saldaña-Padilla; Cecilia Hernández-Cortez; Juan Manuel Bello-López; Graciela Castro-Escarpulli

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ESKAPE and Beyond: The Burden of Coinfections in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Miguel Ángel Loyola-Cruz, Luis Uriel Gonzalez-Avila, Arturo Martínez-Trejo, Andres Saldaña-Padilla, Cecilia Hernández-Cortez, Juan Manuel Bello-López, Graciela Castro-Escarpulli

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The ESKAPE group constitute a threat to public health, since these microorganisms are associated with severe infections in hospitals and have a direct relationship with high mortality rates. The presence of these bacteria in hospitals had a direct impact on the incidence of healthcare-associated coinfections in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. In recent years, these pathogens have shown resistance to multiple antibiotic families. The presence of high-risk clones within this group of bacteria contributes to the spread of resistance mechanisms worldwide. In the pandemic, these pathogens were implicated in coinfections in severely ill COVID-19 patients. The aim of this review is to describe the main microorganisms of the ESKAPE group involved in coinfections in COVID-19 patients, addressing mainly antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, epidemiology, and high-risk clones.

Original language	English
Article number	743
Journal	Pathogens
Volume	12
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12050743
State	Published - May 2023

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COVID-19
ESKAPE
SARS-CoV-2
antimicrobial resistance

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