Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2013)

New Clonal Strain of Candida auris, Delhi, India

  • Anuradha Chowdhary,
  • Cheshta Sharma,
  • Shalini Duggal,
  • Kshitij Agarwal,
  • Anupam Prakash,
  • Pradeep Kumar Singh,
  • Sarika Jain,
  • Shallu Kathuria,
  • Harbans S. Randhawa,
  • Ferry Hagen,
  • Jacques F. Meis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1910.130393
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 10
pp. 1670 – 1673

Abstract

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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.

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