Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2019)

Candida auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare

  • Axel Hamprecht,
  • Amelia E. Barber,
  • Sibylle C. Mellinghoff,
  • Philipp Thelen,
  • Grit Walther,
  • Yanying Yu,
  • Priya Neurgaonkar,
  • Thomas Dandekar,
  • Oliver A. Cornely,
  • Ronny Martin,
  • Oliver Kurzai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2509.190262
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 9
pp. 1763 – 1765

Abstract

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The emerging yeast Candida auris has disseminated worldwide. We report on 7 cases identified in Germany during 2015–2017. In 6 of these cases, C. auris was isolated from patients previously hospitalized abroad. Whole-genome sequencing and epidemiologic analyses revealed that all patients in Germany were infected with different strains.

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