Saturday, 2 July 2016

PRO/EDR> Candida auris: emerging, drug-resistant, nosocomial pathogen, alert

Hospital-Related Infection -- Worldwide/Unknown
Global Emergence of Invasive Infections Caused by the Multidrug-Resistant Yeast _Candida auris_
Summary: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received reports from international healthcare facilities that _Candida auris_, an emerging multidrug-resistant (MDR) yeast, is causing invasive healthcare-associated infections with high mortality. Some strains of _C. auris_ have elevated minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) to the 3 major classes of antifungals, severely

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/29kbRqB

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