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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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 ...
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Candida aurisis a fungus that can be resistant to all three types of antifungal medications — azoles, polyenes, and allylamine/thiocarbamates. First discovered in 2009, the rates of this fungal infection have continued to rise, with the first case in the United States being reported ...
Deadly fungal infection spreading at an alarming rate, CDC says The fungus, a type of yeast called Candida auris, or C. auris, can cause severe illness in people with weakened immune systems. Linda Carroll, NBC News, March 20, 2023
"With all this spread that we've been seeing across the country, we're really encouraging health departments and facilities to be more proactive instead of reactive to identifying Candida auris in general. Because we've found that controlling the situation and containing spread is re...
CDC warns of drug-resistant fungal infection 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 ...
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.