Table 1.

WHO list of drug‐resistant ‘priority’ pathogens (Tacconelli and Magrini, 2017)

Critical	High	Medium
1. Acinetobacter baumannii – carbapenem‐resistant	4. Enterococcus faecium – vancomycin‐resistant	10. Streptococcus pneumoniae – penicillin‐non‐susceptible
2. Pseudomonas aeruginosa – carbapenem‐resistant	5. Staphylococcus aureus – methicillin‐resistant, vancomycin‐intermediate and resistant	11. Haemophilus influenzae – ampicillin‐resistant
3. Enterobacteriaceae – carbapenem‐resistant, ESBL‐producing	6. Helicobacter pylori – clarithromycin‐resistant	12. Shigella spp., − fluoroquinolone‐resistant
–	7. Campylobacter spp., – fluoroquinolone‐resistant	–
–	8. Salmonellae – fluoroquinolone‐resistant	–
–	9. Neisseria gonorrhoeae – cephalosporin‐resistant, fluoroquinolone‐resistant	–