• Flora Cruz-López, Licet Villarreal-Treviño, Adrián Camacho-Ortiz, Rayo Morfín-Otero, Samantha Flores-Treviño, and Elvira Garza-González.
• Departamento de Microbiología e Inmunología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, México.
• Am. J. Med. Sci. 2020 Dec 1; 360 (6): 631-640.

AbstractAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a worldwide public health problem that reduces therapeutic options and increases the risk of death. The causative agents of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are drug-resistant microorganisms of the nosocomial environment, which have developed different mechanisms of AMR. The hospital-associated microbiota has been proposed to be a reservoir of genes associated with AMR and an environment where the transfer of genetic material among organisms may occur. The ESKAPE group (Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter aerogenes and Escherichia coli) is a frequent causative agents of HAIs. In this review, we address the issue of acquired genetic elements that contribute to AMR in the most frequent Gram-negative of ESKAPE, with a focus on last resort antimicrobial agents and the role of transference of genetic elements for the development of AMR.Copyright © 2020 Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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