SINGAPORE - At least three people in Singapore were found to be infected with Candida auris, a deadly drug-resistant fungus that has been spreading worldwide.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - At least three people in Singapore were found to be infected with Candida auris, a deadly drug-resistant fungus that has been spreading worldwide.Last July , Dr Tan Yen Ee and Associate Professor Tan Ai Ling from the Singapore General Hospital's department of microbiology reported the cases in a letter to local medical journal Annals.
The first case in Singapore was detected in a 52-year-old Singapore-born woman who suffered several limb fractures following a traffic accident in India in 2012. The fungus was later found to be resistant to fluconazole, but the patient was not given other antifungal drugs as she was recovering well and was later discharged.
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