Monday, 23 April 2018

PRO/EDR> Candida auris - UK: (England) ICU, shared axillary thermometers

Other Human Disease -- United Kingdom
1. Livornese LL Jr, Dias S, Samel C, Romanowski B, Taylor S, May P, Pitsakis P, Woods G, Kaye D, Levison ME, et al. Hospital-acquired infection with vancomycin-resistant _Enterococcus faecium_ transmitted by electronic thermometers. Ann Intern Med. 1992; 117(2): 112-6; abstract available at
_Candida auris_ is a globally emerging, nosocomial, multidrug resistant pathogen associated with a high mortality. Epidemiologic investigations in the U.S. revealed most cases in each state had exposure

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