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Responds to a dangerous fungus here and abroad

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09/26/2018
By National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)

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National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
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Candida auris, or C. auris, is a drug-resistant fungus that is causing severe infections and deaths in hospitals around the world. Moststrainsdetectedsofarhave been resistant to at least one drug, and more than one third were resistant to two of the three major drug classes used to treat fungal infections. Particularly concerning, some strains have been found to be resistant to all three drug classes. This level of resistance has never been seen in other Candida infections.

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global-stories-candida-auris-H.pdf
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Candida Auris Candidiasis
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Fact Sheet
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1 unnumbered page
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Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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