Candida auris: From 2013 through 2017 European officials recorded 620 cases, mostly from four large outbreaks, and 110 of them (17.7%) involved bloodstream infections
March 31st, 2018C. auris “is an emerging fungus that is causing difficult-to-control outbreaks of invasive healthcare-associated infections. Since the first report of C. auris in 2009 [2], cases have been reported worldwide. Identification of C. auris requires specialised laboratory methodology as traditional identification methods may lead to misidentification [3,4]. In addition, C. auris has been associated with resistance to multiple antifungal classes [5] and difficulties related to the interpretation of antifungal susceptibility results [6]. The combination of these characteristics, i.e. propensity to cause nosocomial outbreaks, multi-drug resistance, ability to cause severe disease and difficulties with laboratory detection, render C. auris a public health threat ….”
