Candida auris is a World Health Organization critical priority fungal pathogen. We conducted a systematic review to describe its epidemiology in Africa. PubMed and Google scholar databases were searched between January 2009 and September 2023 for clinical studies on C. auris cases a...
"Candida auris can cause things like wound infections, bloodstream," Dr. Chittick said. So far, there not many cases reported in Michigan and hopefully it stays that way. "We’ve had just a handful of cases at a few different locations in our system," he said. "The CDC and ...
Updated on: March 21, 2023 / 8:30 PM EDT / CBS News Cases of the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris are now climbing at an "alarming" rate in health care facilities around the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday, after reports of infected patients nearly...
Thirteen cases of fungal infection byCandidaaurishave been identified in the United States since 2013, according to an articlepublished onlineNovember 4 inMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report(MMWR).C aurisinfections are potentially lethal. The infection was first identified in 2009 in the external ear...
Introduction. Candida auris is a relatively novel pathogen first described in 2009 in Japan. It has increased its presence worldwide, becoming a public health concern due to its innate resistance to ...
Candida auris-macrophage cellular interactions and transcriptional response 2023, Infection and Immunity Vaginal Epithelial Cell Membrane-Based Phototherapeutic Decoy Confers a “Three-in-One” Strategy to Treat against Intravaginal Infection of Candida albicans 2023, ACS Nano The Interplay between Candida alb...
In some of cases, C. auris was found on the skin of people; in epidemiological terms, they were “colonized.” In that state, the fungus isn’t causing disease, but people who are colonized can spread the fungus to other patients and may eventually go on to have active infections the...
Methods for the rapid detection of the presence or absence of Candida auris (CA) in a biological or non-biological sample are described. The methods can include performing an
Upon discovering that the patient had C. auris belonging to a clade that was genetically different from the other five, the team looked through the Hospital's archive and found two other patient cases. Their discovery was documented in "Detection and characterization of a sixth Candida auris clad...
We have orders of magnitude fewer cases for Candida auris, but thefungusis a really big problem for infection control. I think people are trying to figure out the best strategies for infection control and prevention in hospitals now that it's becoming more prevalent. ...