Hospital-Associated Multicenter Outbreak of Emerging Fungus Candida auris, Colombia, 2016

Hospital-Associated Multicenter Outbreak of Emerging Fungus Candida auris, Colombia, 2016

Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant fungus that causes hospital-associated outbreaks of invasive infections with high death rates. During 2015–2016, health authorities in Colombia detected an outbreak of C. auris. We conducted an investigation to characterize the epidemiology, transmiss...

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Main Authors: Paige A. Armstrong, Sandra M. Rivera, Patricia Escandon, Diego H. Caceres, Nancy Chow, Matthew J. Stuckey, Jorge Díaz, Adriana Gomez, Norida Vélez, Andres Espinosa-Bode, Soraya Salcedo, Adriana Marin, Indira Berrio, Carmen Varón, Angel Guzman, Jairo E. Pérez-Franco, Julian D. Escobar, Nohora Villalobos, Juan M. Correa, Anastasia P. Litvintseva, Shawn R. Lockhart, Ryan Fagan, Tom M. Chiller, Brendan Jackson, Oscar Pacheco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-07-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
fungi
candidemia
resistance
healthcare associated
Candida auris
antimicrobial resistance
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/7/18-0491_article

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