First hospital outbreak of the globally emerging Candida auris in a European hospital

BACKGROUND: Candida auris is a globally emerging multidrug resistant fungal pathogen causing nosocomial transmission. We report an ongoing outbreak of C. auris in a London cardio-thoracic center between April 2015 and July 2016. This is the first report of C. auris in Europe and the largest outbreak...

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Published in:Antimicrob Resist Infect Control
Main Authors: Schelenz, Silke, Hagen, Ferry, Rhodes, Johanna L., Abdolrasouli, Alireza, Chowdhary, Anuradha, Hall, Anne, Ryan, Lisa, Shackleton, Joanne, Trimlett, Richard, Meis, Jacques F., Armstrong-James, Darius, Fisher, Matthew C.
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Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5069812/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27777756
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-016-0132-5
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