The infection, which often spreads in hospitals and other health care settings, can invade the ear canal, urine and bloodstream. Four of the US patients diagnosed with the infection have died, although the precise causes remain unclear, the CDC said. "We need to act now to better understand,...
(The Hill) – Candida auris, a rare and sometimes deadly fungal disease, is spreading through the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned this week, citing a “dramatic” increase in cases. According to the CDC,Candida aurisis a type of yeast that can cause se...
Candida albicans, which is related to Candida auris. Credit: CDC In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, infection preventionists at two Southern California hospitals took extreme measures to stop the spread of a deadly fungus that has emerged in the U.S. and around the world. The two will...
Dr. William Kaplan/CDC The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning health facilities to be on the lookout for a multidrug-resistant type of yeast infection that has infected hundreds of patients across the globe. The infection has most commonly been contracted during a hospital s...
One CDC report investigated a 2020 outbreak in a COVID wing in a Florida hospital, after admission screening and some precautions were suspended during the pandemic. "We continue to see challenges with infection control, so it's not all resolved now that COVID's not here. This is kind of...
"This is a very unusual infection," said Dr. John Jernigan, a CDC medical epidemiologist who is leading the clinical investigation team for the outbreak response. "So, treatment recommendations, diagnostic recommendations are all going to be new, and we're learning as we go on this one." ...
Dangerous Fungus Now Endemic in Pacific Northwest: CDC; The emerging fungal infection can be deadly, but many mild cases may go unnoticed, expert says.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Reinberg, Steven
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. According to the study, compromised immunity is also a major cause of C. albicans overgrowth, and “Systemic infections caused by C.albicanscan lead to invasive candidiasis, which is the fourth most common blood infection among hospitalized patients in the United States according to the CDC.”...
“Throughout this investigation, we worked closely with partners from the CDC Dominican Republic office and the ministries of health and labor,” she said. “Efforts are ongoing to expand education and diagnostic capacity for histoplasmosis in th...