Candida auris (C. auris) is a type of yeast that can cause severe illness and spreads easily among patients in healthcare facilities. It is often resistant to antifungal treatments, which means that the medications that are designed to kill the fungus and stop infections do not work. Symptoms...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert that infections from the fungus Candida auris are increasing. Theresa O'Meara, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the U-M Medical School, speaks a
A deadly, drug-resistant fungus has arrived in the USRafi Letzter
Let's put it into context: Candida albicans, another fungus I work on, is currently colonizing 20-80% of people. This is a common fungus that causes yeast infections, but also causes thousands of serious bloodstream infections a year. We have orders of magnitude fewer cases for Candida auri...