SAN DIEGO — The number of cases ofCandida aurisis on the rise in American healthcare facilities, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is asking laboratories to determine the species when a result forCandidais positive andC. aurisis suspected. C. aurisrepresents a paradigm ...
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 doubled in 2021. For several years after the first ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning about Candida auris, a fungus that can lead to drug-resistant infections and even death, in some cases. Capt. Arjun Srinivasan, deputy director of program improvement for the CDC's division o
The multidrug-resistant fungusCandida auriscan cause severe illness in hospitalized patients or in individuals with weakened immune systems. Now, researchers have identified various cases of patients in hospitals and nursing homes contracting a highly drug-resistant strain ofC. auristhat may...
According to the CDC, infections withC. auriscan cause symptoms, including fever and chills. Approximately one-third of the cases with an invasive version of the fungal infection is fatal. Often patients with this condition contract it in addition to another infection, making it difficul...
Drug-resistant fungus Candida auris cases rising at ‘alarming’ rate, CDC warnsRead full article: Drug-resistant fungus Candida auris cases rising at ‘alarming’ rate, CDC warns The CDC has issued a warning about Candida auris, saying the fungus spread at an “alarming rate” in healthcare ...
Candida auris presents a unique challenge to practitioners and infection control teams worldwide because of its virulence, alarming resistance profile, environmental fitness, and risk of nosocomial transmission. We describe 2 cases of Candida auris infection managed with the CDC recommendations with no ...
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The agency listed 18 drug-resistant microbes of particular concern, of which five were deemed to be urgent. Two of those five were new additions since the 2013 report: a type of yeast called Candida auris and a bacterium called Acinetobacter that is resistant to powerful antibiotics called carba...
(HealthDay)—The United States has had more than 600 cases of infection with a type of fungus called a "serious global health threat" by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.