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. 2019 Dec 5;7(1):1901872. doi: 10.1002/advs.201901872

Table 1.

Proportion of clinical ESKAPE isolates and their proportion segregating in MDR, XDR, and PDR as defined by the CDC/ECDC panel

Country Collection period Study population E. faecalis S. aureus K. pneumoniae A. baumannii P. aeruginosa Enterobacter spp. E. coli Refs.
India January to December, 2015 5103 resistance records from 4437 patients 5.9% 5.5% 26.9% 10.2% 11.6% 2.6% 37.4% 23
MDR/XDR MDR/XDR MDR/XDR MDR/XDR MDR/XDR MDR/XDR MDR/XDR
India April 15 to July 15, 2014 1060 bacterial strains from 9304 patients 4.2% 23.8% 18.9% 4.0% 20.0% 2.9% 24.6% 24

28.9% MDR

35.6% XDR.

49.6% MDR

15.1% XDR

36% MDR

11% XDR

45.2% MDR

19% XDR

37.5% MDR

12.5% XDR

35.5% MDR

19.4% XDR

30.3% MDR

8.4% XDR

Kuwait January to December, 2017 201 patients with burn injury 4.9% 14.6% 19.5% 41.5% 14.6% 25
0% MDR 66.7% MDR 50.0% MDR 100.0% MDR 16.7% MDR
China January 2012 to December 2014 7579 patients with hospital‐acquired infections 2.1% 14.9% 14.5% 15.3% 15.4% 29.0% 26
1.3% MDR 1.3% MDR 41.9% MDR 50.7% MDR 37.6% MDR 55.4% MDR
Indonesia January 2015 to December 2016 299 positive blood samples from 2542 pediatric patients 2.7% 3.0% 8.0% 1.7% 18.1% 27
75% MDR 25% XDR

88.9% MDR

11.1% XDR

83.3% MDR 16.7% XDR 100% MDR

87.0% MDR

13.0% XDR

South Africa August 2011 to December 2015 64502 ESKAPE clinical isolates 3.4% 38.0% 22.2% 12.4% 17.4% 6.6% 28
24.6% MRSA 79.2% were MDR
Nepal November 2014 to August 2015 182 pus and fine needle aspirates collected from patients with clinical features of wound infection Enterococcus spp. 4.3% 56.9% 5.2% Acinetobacter spp. 5.2% 4.3% 8.6% 29
80% MDR 80% MDR 80% MDR 66.7% MDR 66.7% MDR 80% MDR
India January 2012 to December 2016 993 identified pathogens from 2984 patients with healthcare associated infections Enterococcus spp. 2.0% Staphylococcus spp. 6.6% Klebsiella spp. 15.1% Acinetobacter spp. 42.9% Pseudomonas spp. 10.2% 11.7% 30
88.0% MDR 61.9% XDR

88.0% MDR

61.9% XDR

Spain 203 microbiological confirmations (from 343 patients) for S. aureus, Enterococcus spp., Enterobacteriaceae (other than Salmonella and Shigella), P. aeruginosa, and Acinetobacter spp. 31
44% MDR, 12% XDR, 3% PDR
Saudi Arabia 2014–2015 155 patients positive for E. faecalis infection 100.0% 32
96.1% MDR
Ethiopia May to September, 2016 126 bacterial etiologies isolated from 118 patients with healthcare associated infections 20.6% Klebsiella species, 23.8% 1.6% 7.1% 4.8% 24.6% 33
38.5% MDR 38.5% XDR 11.5% PDR

Klebsiella species;

30% MDR 43.3% XDR 6.7% PDR

50% XDR 50% PDR

22.2% MDR 44.4% XDR

33% PDR

33.3% MDR 50% XDR 16.7% PDR 35.5% MDR 32.3% XDR 22.6% PDR
Romania 2010– 2012 1001 bacterial strains (of 1534 samples) from 2404 adult patients 21.8% 18.8% 14.1% 14.2% 18.4% 11.3% 34

66.5% MDR

20.2% XDR

87.8% MDR

35.6% XDR

99.3% MDR 41.1% XDR

69.0% MDR

20.4% XDR

67.9% MDR

13.0% XDR

67.9% MDR

13.0% XDR

Nigeria June to September, 2015 201 mid‐stream urine samples from asymptomatic pregnant women 10.0% 22.4% 17.9% 9.0%; 100% MDR 35
90% MDR 90% MDR 88.9% MDR
Ethiopia September to December, 2016 242 swabs of health care workers 12.0% 36
48.3% MRSA
China August to November, 2015 Swabs from 1834 pregnant women and their neonates 12.1% 37
53.0% MDR
China August to November, 2015 Serial swabs collected from 1834 mothers and their newborn infants 7.3% in mothers 3.3% in infants 38
66.7% MDR in mothers 38.3% in infants
Tanzania June to October, 2016 379 nasal swabs from health care workers 41.4% 39
38.9% MDR
Afghanistan September 2016 to February 2017 105 clinical strains of S. aureus isolated from hospitalized patients 100.0% 40
91.4% MDR
Mexico January 1 to June 30, 2018 22943 strains from 47 Mexican centers Klebsiella spp.: 14.5% Acinetobacter spp.: 3.8% 8.7% 5.8% 50.9% 41
22.6% MDR 53.0% MDR, 43.2% possible XDR 8.8% XDR 38.8% possible PDR

8.8% MDR

8.3% possible XDR

0.2% XDR 4.4% possible PDR

11.9% MDR

19.4% MDR 8.1% possible XDR

0.04% possible PDR

China January 1, 2007 to March 31, 2017 88 MDR/XDR bacteria from urinary tract specimens in 1569 kidney transplant recipients 17.0% 10.2% 2.3% Enterobacter aerogenes 2.3%, Enterobacter cloacae 1.1% 62.5% 42
MDR/XDR MDR/XDR MDR/XDR MDR/XDR MDR/XDR
Egypt November 2015 to October 2016 195 positive culture specimens from 529 febrile neutropenic cancer patients 16.4% 6.2% 3.1% Enterobacter cloacae 46.2% 17.4% 43
75% MDR 75% MDR 33.3% MDR 79.4% MDR 79.4% MDR
China January 1 2016 to October 1 2017 19 in‐patients with ventriculitis caused by A. baumannii or K. pneumonia 26.3% 73.7% 44

80% MDR

20% XDR

85.7% MDR 14.3% XDR
Tunisia 2010–2017 770 patients with community‐acquired urinary tract infections caused by Enterobacteriaceae 14.4% 100.0% 72.7% 45
17.2% MDR 47.9% MDR 76.1% MDR
Ethiopia January 1 to May 30, 2017 426 Enterobacteriaceae isolates 24.10% 53.50% 46
82.5% MDR 65.3% MDR
Iran 2012–2013 100 clinical isolates of K. pneumoniae 100.0% 47
56% MDR
Spain January 2014 to December 2016 1725 adult patients colonized by K. pneumoniae in an intensive care unit (ICU) 100% 48
17.9% MDR
Brazil January 2014 to May 2015 25 K. pneumoniae clinical isolates collected from patients and devices at ICUs 100.0% 49
84.0% MDR
India March 2017 to February 2018 357 blood culture samples identified with Acinetobacter sp. during hospitalization 13.4% 50
95.9% MDR 93.8% XDR
Lithuania January 2014 to December 2015 60 patients with ventilator‐associated pneumonia in ICU due to drug‐resistant A. baumannii 100.0% 51
13.3% MDR 68.3% XDR 18.3% possible PDR
Iran October 2015 to October 2016 147 nonduplicate A. baumannii isolates from clinical specimens 100.0% 52
2.7% MDR 97.3% XDR
India 2011–2014 741 clinical Acinetobacter spp. isolates Acinetobacter spp. 100% 53
MDR isolates 89.4– 95.9%
Iran January to June, 2015 96 samples detected with P. aeruginosa from 120 wound burn samples 80.0% 54
95.8% MDR 87.5% XDR
Iran 2013 88 P. aeruginosa isolates from patients 100.0% 55

54.5% MDR

33% XDR

Venezuela 2009–2016 176 strains from patients diagnosed with clinical infections 100.0% 56
MDR and XDR strains increased from 2009 (24.2 and 4.8%) to 2016 (53.1 and 18.8%)
Global 1997–2016 52 022 clinically P. aeruginosa isolates from ≥200 medical centers 100.0% 57
24.9% MDR, 24.9% XDR, and 0.1% PDR
Malaysia 2015 53 clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa 100.0% 58
7.5% MDR
China January 2013 to December 2016 157 patients with hospital‐acquired pneumonia caused by P. aeruginosa 100.0% 59
43.9% MDR
Asia‐Pacific region 2012–2015 896 clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa 100.0% 60
14.8% MDR
U.S. 2016 2039 clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa 100.0% 61
29.5% MDR
Iran March to July, 2015 100 isolates of P. aeruginosa from wound infections of burn patients 100.00% 62

19% MDR 7

5% XDR

Thailand April to December 2014 255 adult hospitalized patients with P. aeruginosa infections 100.0% 63

12.5% MDR

22% XDR