A Candida auris outbreak and its control in an intensive care setting
<p>BACKGROUND Candida auris is an emerging and multidrug-resistant pathogen. Here we report the epidemiology of a hospital outbreak of C. auris colonization and infection.</p><p> METHODS After identification of a cluster of C. auris infections in the neurosciences intensive care u...
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| author | Eyre, D Sheppard, A Madder, H Moir, I Moroney, R Quan, T Griffiths, D George, S Butcher, L Morgan, M Newnham, R Sunderland, M Clarke, T Foster, D Hoffman, P Borman, A Johnson, E Moore, G Brown, C Walker, A Peto, T Crook, D Jeffery, K |
| author_facet | Eyre, D Sheppard, A Madder, H Moir, I Moroney, R Quan, T Griffiths, D George, S Butcher, L Morgan, M Newnham, R Sunderland, M Clarke, T Foster, D Hoffman, P Borman, A Johnson, E Moore, G Brown, C Walker, A Peto, T Crook, D Jeffery, K |
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| description | <p>BACKGROUND Candida auris is an emerging and multidrug-resistant pathogen. Here we report the epidemiology of a hospital outbreak of C. auris colonization and infection.</p><p> METHODS After identification of a cluster of C. auris infections in the neurosciences intensive care unit (ICU) of the Oxford University Hospitals, United Kingdom, we instituted an intensive patient and environmental screening program and package of interventions. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify predictors of C. auris colonization and infection. Isolates from patients and from the environment were analyzed by whole-genome sequencing.</p><p> RESULTS A total of 70 patients were identified as being colonized or infected with C. auris between February 2, 2015, and August 31, 2017; of these patients, 66 (94%) had been admitted to the neurosciences ICU before diagnosis. Invasive C. auris infections developed in 7 patients. When length of stay in the neurosciences ICU and patient vital signs and laboratory results were controlled for, the predictors of C. auris colonization or infection included the use of reusable skin-surface axillary temperature probes (multivariable odds ratio, 6.80; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.96 to 15.63; P<0.001) and systemic fluconazole exposure (multivariable odds ratio, 10.34; 95% CI, 1.64 to 65.18; P=0.01). C. auris was rarely detected in the general environment. However, it was detected in isolates from reusable equipment, including multiple axillary skin-surface temperature probes. Despite a bundle of infection-control interventions, the incidence of new cases was reduced only after removal of the temperature probes. All outbreak sequences formed a single genetic cluster within the C. auris South African clade. The sequenced isolates from reusable equipment were genetically related to isolates from the patients.</p><p> CONCLUSIONS The transmission of C. auris in this hospital outbreak was found to be linked to reusable axillary temperature probes, indicating that this emerging pathogen can persist in the environment and be transmitted in health care settings. (Funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at Oxford University and others.)</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:40dff01d-7852-4e55-8808-8412b61df8fb2022-03-26T14:40:27ZA Candida auris outbreak and its control in an intensive care settingJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:40dff01d-7852-4e55-8808-8412b61df8fbSymplectic Elements at OxfordMassachusetts Medical Society2018Eyre, DSheppard, AMadder, HMoir, IMoroney, RQuan, TGriffiths, DGeorge, SButcher, LMorgan, MNewnham, RSunderland, MClarke, TFoster, DHoffman, PBorman, AJohnson, EMoore, GBrown, CWalker, APeto, TCrook, DJeffery, K<p>BACKGROUND Candida auris is an emerging and multidrug-resistant pathogen. Here we report the epidemiology of a hospital outbreak of C. auris colonization and infection.</p><p> METHODS After identification of a cluster of C. auris infections in the neurosciences intensive care unit (ICU) of the Oxford University Hospitals, United Kingdom, we instituted an intensive patient and environmental screening program and package of interventions. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify predictors of C. auris colonization and infection. Isolates from patients and from the environment were analyzed by whole-genome sequencing.</p><p> RESULTS A total of 70 patients were identified as being colonized or infected with C. auris between February 2, 2015, and August 31, 2017; of these patients, 66 (94%) had been admitted to the neurosciences ICU before diagnosis. Invasive C. auris infections developed in 7 patients. When length of stay in the neurosciences ICU and patient vital signs and laboratory results were controlled for, the predictors of C. auris colonization or infection included the use of reusable skin-surface axillary temperature probes (multivariable odds ratio, 6.80; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.96 to 15.63; P<0.001) and systemic fluconazole exposure (multivariable odds ratio, 10.34; 95% CI, 1.64 to 65.18; P=0.01). C. auris was rarely detected in the general environment. However, it was detected in isolates from reusable equipment, including multiple axillary skin-surface temperature probes. Despite a bundle of infection-control interventions, the incidence of new cases was reduced only after removal of the temperature probes. All outbreak sequences formed a single genetic cluster within the C. auris South African clade. The sequenced isolates from reusable equipment were genetically related to isolates from the patients.</p><p> CONCLUSIONS The transmission of C. auris in this hospital outbreak was found to be linked to reusable axillary temperature probes, indicating that this emerging pathogen can persist in the environment and be transmitted in health care settings. (Funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at Oxford University and others.)</p> |
| spellingShingle | Eyre, D Sheppard, A Madder, H Moir, I Moroney, R Quan, T Griffiths, D George, S Butcher, L Morgan, M Newnham, R Sunderland, M Clarke, T Foster, D Hoffman, P Borman, A Johnson, E Moore, G Brown, C Walker, A Peto, T Crook, D Jeffery, K A Candida auris outbreak and its control in an intensive care setting |
| title | A Candida auris outbreak and its control in an intensive care setting |
| title_full | A Candida auris outbreak and its control in an intensive care setting |
| title_fullStr | A Candida auris outbreak and its control in an intensive care setting |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Candida auris outbreak and its control in an intensive care setting |
| title_short | A Candida auris outbreak and its control in an intensive care setting |
| title_sort | candida auris outbreak and its control in an intensive care setting |
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