Candida auris is a type of yeast that can spread from person to person and is resistant to antifungal treatments. The CDC calls it an “urgent threat.”
Candida auris through an optical microscope view in 2019.
Candida auris is a particular concern because, unlike most fungi, it can spread person to person, said Dr. Scott Roberts, associate medical director of infection prevention at Yale School of Medicine. When organisms like fungi evolve to live at higher temperatures, it can give them an advantage when it comes to growing in the high-temperature conditions of the human body.The director of the National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungus Infections, Oliver Kurzai, holds a petri dish containing Candida auris in a lab in Wuerzburg, Germany, on January 23, 2018. First identified in Asia in 2009, C. auris is now found on four continents.
“Those at highest risk for severe infections with C. auris include people who are already sick from other health conditions and are immunocompromised, have long or frequent stays in healthcare facilities, or have lines or tubes that go into their body, such as central venous catheters, feeding tubes, breathing tubes,” Madad said. “The infection can prove deadly for 30% to 60% of those infected with invasive C. auris.”A warming climate is likely a major reason for the rapid rise in C.
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