The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning health facilities to be on the lookout for a multidrug-resistant type of yeast infection that has infected hundreds of patients across the globe. The infection has most commonly been contracted during a hospital stay of several weeks, according to a CDC alert to US clinicians.
Candida auris — a species of Candida, a common cause of fungal infections — was first identified in 2009 in the ear discharge of a hospitalized patient in Japan. It has since been seen to cause invasive infections in wounds, the bloodstream, and the urinary tract, said Tom Chiller, chief of the mycotic diseases branch of the CDC.
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