New Clonal Strain of Candida auris, Delhi, India

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Chowdhary, Anuradha ; Sharma, Cheshta ; Duggal, Shalini ; Agarwal, Kshitij ; Prakash, Anupam ; Singh, Pradeep Kumar ; Jain, Sarika ; Kathuria, Shallu ; Randhawa, Harbans S. ; Hagen, Ferry ; Meis, Jacques F.
• Description:
  A new clonal strain of Candida auris is an emerging etiologic agent of fungemia in Delhi, India. In 12 patients in 2 hospitals, it was resistant to fluconazole and genotypically distinct from isolates from South Korea and Japan, as revealed by M13 and amplified fragment length polymorphism typing.
• Subjects:
  Aged Antifungal Agents Candida Candidiasis Child Dispatch DNA, Fungal DNA, Ribosomal Spacer Drug Resistance, Fungal Female Fluconazole Fungemia Infant Infant, Newborn Male Microbial Sensitivity Tests Middle Aged Multilocus Sequence Typing Phylogeny Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length Treatment Outcome

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 19(10):1670-1673.
• DOI:
  10.3201/eid1910.130393
• Pubmed ID:
  24048006
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3810747
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  India
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3760e8415c1ec761cd6e48c801df8c015f0567203b85efda3867faeded94260a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/20933/cdc_20933_DS1.pdf
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