Researchers have confirmed the presence of Candida auris in the wild. It is a multi-drug fungus
Identified about ten years ago, Candida aurisrecognized as a “multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen”. It causes severe infections in hospitalized patients. However, the nature of C. auris and its rapid acquisition of multidrug resistance remained a mystery.
FungusCandida aurisfirst attracted the attention of researchers and doctorsand societies around the world relatively recently, when reports appeared in the media about an infection that was not only resistant to traditional treatments, but also deadly. The earliest case of disease caused by this type of fungus was identified retrospectively in Japan and dates back to 1996. Since 2009, patients infectedCandida aurishave already been registered on all continents(excluding Australia and Antarctica). At the current time, the identification and treatment of patients with this type of candidiasis is very problematic (as well as the fight against outbreaks of the disease), and the reasons for its occurrence are unclear. A review of this issue by University of Aberdeen (UK) professor Adilia Warris was published in the September issue of Archives of Disease in Childhood.
It is noteworthy that samples taken from salt marshes andbeaches of India's remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal have identified common drug-resistant and multidrug-resistant isolates of C. auris. Wildlife samples confirm that the fungus is an environmental organism.
Although C.auris found on the beach are multidrug-resistant, those found in the more remote salt marshes of the Andaman Islands were not resistant to common antifungal drugs.
So far no environmental studies have been carried outstudies to examine the presence of C. auris outside of hospitals. In hospital settings, the fungus is usually found in immunocompromised patients with prolonged hospitalization. Patients who require the use of invasive devices—catheters, feeding tubes, and breathing tubes—are especially vulnerable to infections caused by fungus or yeast.
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