ESCAPE

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The abbreviation ESKAPE stands for the hospital germs Enterococcus faecium , Staphylococcus aureus , Klebsiella pneumoniae , Acinetobacter baumannii , Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacter species. They often develop multi-resistance and trigger nosocomial infections .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Sciences Hamburg, German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina: Antibiotics Research: Problems and Perspectives Opinion . De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-030689-7 .