Candida auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare

Candida auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare

The emerging yeast Candida auris has disseminated worldwide. We report on 7 cases identified in Germany during 2015–2017. In 6 of these cases, C. auris was isolated from patients previously hospitalized abroad. Whole-genome sequencing and epidemiologic analyses revealed that all patients in Germany...

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Main Authors: Axel Hamprecht, Amelia E. Barber, Sibylle C. Mellinghoff, Philipp Thelen, Grit Walther, Yanying Yu, Priya Neurgaonkar, Thomas Dandekar, Oliver A. Cornely, Ronny Martin, Oliver Kurzai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-09-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
mycology
infectious diseases
Candida auris
Germany
fungi
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/9/19-0262_article

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