Candida Auris

A New York hospital expanded its Candida auris screening protocols after a patient tested positive for the fungal pathogen 2 months after being admitted, catching other cases that would have previously been missed, according to a study.

SAN ANTONIO — An active screening strategy allowed patients with Candida auris to be rapidly identified and isolated to reduce risk of transmission in a health care facility, researchers reported.

SAN ANTONIO — Clinicians at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center learned some valuable insight about environmental containment after they identified two patients with Candida auris.

BOSTON — The emergence of infectious diseases can be tied to events like climate change, social change and political trends, according to an expert.

Primary care providers can play an important part in Candida auris detection, according to an expert.

Reported rates of Candida auris screening at facilities across the U.S. were low despite many facilities that conducted screening reporting at least one case of C. auris in the last year, according to survey results.

To go along with our recent feature on fungal diseases, we asked Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD, chair of molecular microbiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, why Candida auris emerged nearly simultaneously on three continents.

Contamination of the health care environments near patients who are colonized with Candida auris often occurs within 4 hours, researchers found.

In-house PCR testing on admission for the detection Candida auris enabled researchers to identify more cases on admission and lowered rates of hospital-onset C. auris, a recent study showed.

BOSTON — Mechanically ventilated patients in long-term care facilities are far more likely to be colonized by Acinetobacter baumannii and Candida auris than those in acute-care facilities, a study found.