TABLE 3.
Number of ESKAPE pathogens in the isolation ward at a referral hospital in Limpopo, South Africa: 2014–2019.
| Ward name | Year |
% contribution | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Total | ||
| Neonatal ward | 51 | 83 | 64 | 71 | 63 | 85 | 417 | 55.9 |
| Paediatric ward | 8 | 12 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 63 | 8.4 |
| Intensive care unit | 5 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 60 | 8.0 |
| Male medical ward | 8 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 53 | 7.1 |
| Female medical ward | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 40 | 5.4 |
| Burns unit | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 36 | 4.8 |
| Casualty | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 23 | 3.1 |
| Male surgical ward | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 1.9 |
| Sub-acute ward | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 1.6 |
| High care unit | - | 3 | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1.2 |
| Female surgical ward | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0.7 |
| Health information centre | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | 0.5 |
| Antenatal ward | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 0.4 |
| Obstetric ward | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0.3 |
| Outpatient department | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 0.3 |
| Maternity ward | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 0.1 |
| Orthopaedic ward | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Paediatric outpatient department | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 0.1 |
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| Total | 91 | 134 | 97 | 114 | 130 | 180 | 746 | 100.0 |
ESKAPE, Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp.