Sentinel Case of Candida auris in the Western United States Following Prolonged Occult Colonization in a Returned Traveler from India.

ABSTRACT: Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast with high mortality. We report the sentinel C. auris case on the United States West Coast in a patient who relocated from India. We identified close phylogenetic relatedness to the South Asia clade and ERG11 Y132F and FKS1 S639Y mutations potentially explaining antifungal resistance.

SUBMITTER: Woodworth MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6555181 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature