TABLE 2.

Incidence of ESKAPE pathogens at a referral hospital in Limpopo, South Africa, 2014–2019.

Pathogen	2014		2015		2016		2017		2018		2019		Total		Trend (p-value)
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
E. faecium	0	0.0	7	5.2	26	26.8	25	21.9	26	20.0	23	12.8	107	14.3	0.339
S. aureus	39	42.9	37	27.6	25	25.8	45	39.5	47	36.2	75	41.7	268	35.9	0.132
K. pneumoniae	46	50.5	68	50.7	4	4.1	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	118	15.8	0.007
A. baumannii	0	0.0	16	11.9	31	32.0	37	32.5	48	36.9	68	37.8	200	26.8	0.009
P. aeruginosa	4	4.4	6	4.5	11	11.3	7	6.1	9	6.9	14	7.8	51	6.8	0.060
Enterobacter spp.	2	2.2	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	0.3	0.243
Total	91	100.0	134	100.0	97	100.0	114	100.0	130	100.0	180	100.0	746	100.0	0.133

ESKAPE, Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp.; n, sample.