Multidrug-resistant Candida species first detected in Japan in 2009 in the ear swab (C. auris) of a 70-year-old woman.
Multidrug-resistant Candida species first detected in Japan in 2009 in the ear swab (C. auris) of a 70-year-old woman.
Candida auris can be detected in the external auditory tract, in the urinary and respiratory tract, also vulvovaginally and on wounds.
In the USA, 13 cases of the potentially fatal fungal infection with Candida auris have been reported. Candida auris has now been found in patients in South Korea, India, South Africa, Kuwait, Colombia, Venezuela, Pakistan, the UK, France and Germany.
If C. auris enters the bloodstream, the infection can become life-threatening due to resistance to the usual antifungal drugs.
Infection - immunodeficient patients (especially those infected with HIV) and patients in intensive care units are particularly at risk.