Axillary Digital Thermometers uplifted a multidrug-susceptible Candida auris outbreak among COVID-19 patients in Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the first outbreak of Candida auris in Brazil, including epidemiological, clinical and microbiological data.

Methods

After the first Candida auris-colonised patient was diagnosed in a COVID-19 ICU at a hospital in Salvador, Brazil, a multidisciplinary team conducted a local C. auris prevalence investigation. Screening cultures for C. auris were collected from patients, healthcare workers and inanimate surfaces. Risk factors for C. auris colonisation were evaluated, and the fungemia episodes that occurred after the investigation were also analysed and described. Antifungal susceptibility of the C. auris isolates was determined, and they were genotyped with microsatellite analysis.

Results

Among body swabs collected from 47 patients, eight (n = 8/

SUBMITTER: Nobrega de Almeida J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8242760 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature