Increasing Threat of Spread of Antimicrobial-resistant Fungus in Healthcare Facilities | CDC Online Newsroom
Candida auris (C. auris), an rising fungus viewed as an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) risk, spread at an alarming fee in U.S. healthcare services in 2020-2021, in accordance to knowledge from the Centers for Ailment Manage and Avoidance (CDC) released in the Annals of Inside Drugs. Similarly concerning was a tripling in 2021 of the number of cases that ended up resistant to echinocandins, the antifungal medicine most advisable for procedure of C. auris bacterial infections. In standard, C. auris…