Introduction: ESKAPE pathogens are a small group of pathogens of remarkable importance. The present study was carried out to determine the prevalence of ESKAPE pathogens in urinary tract infections (UTIs) and their antibiotic susceptibility patterns at the Jordan University of Science and Technology Health Center in Irbid, Jordan.
Methodology: A one-year retrospective study was conducted from April 2021 to April 2022. A total of 444 samples of "clean-catch" (midstream) urine from outpatients were studied.
Results: Our study showed that the vast majority of urinary tract infected patients were females (92%) compared to males (8%) and were most frequent in the age group 21-30 years old. The most associated co-morbidities with UTIs were hypertension followed by diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism. ESKAPE pathogens were responsible for about 87.4% of the UTIs in this study, and all were identified in the urine samples except Acinetobacter baumannii. In this study, isolates were most sensitive to levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and third-generation cephalosporin's and least sensitive to doxycycline, amoxicillin, and clindamycin.
Conclusions: This research work has shown that patients with UTI-associated ESKAPE pathogens in Jordan are at high risk of antibiotic resistance. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in the region that studies the association between ESKAPE pathogens and UTIs.
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