Candida Auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2019 Jun 22

PMID 31223105

Citations 20

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

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Abstract

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 were infected with different strains.

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