{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["9(7)"],"submitter":["Yadav A"],"pubmed_abstract":["<i>Candida auris</i> is an emerging global public health threat and is resistant to most antifungal agents. Though fungi are significant pathogens for animals, the role of <i>C. auris</i> in animal health remains unexplored. Here, we analysed the microbial cultures of skin and ear swabs of 87 dogs in Delhi and performed fungal meta-barcode sequencing of ear and skin samples of 7 dogs with confirmed otitis externa (OE). Overall, 4.5% of dogs (4/87) with chronic skin infections contained evidence of <i>C. auris</i> in their ear canal (<i>n</i> = 3) and on their skin surface (<i>n</i> = 1). Of the three OE dogs with <i>C. auris</i> infection/colonisation, a diversity of fungi was observed, and their meta-barcode ITS sequence reads for <i>C. auris</i> ranged from 0.06% to 0.67%. Whole-genome s"],"journal":["Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)"],"pagination":["720"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10381908"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["<i>Candida auris</i> in Dog Ears."],"pmcid":["PMC10381908"],"pubmed_authors":["Kasana V","Kaur H","Chowdhary A","Panwar VAR","Jain K","Wang Y","Yadav A","Xu J"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"<i>Candida auris</i> in Dog Ears.","description":"<i>Candida auris</i> is an emerging global public health threat and is resistant to most antifungal agents. Though fungi are significant pathogens for animals, the role of <i>C. auris</i> in animal health remains unexplored. Here, we analysed the microbial cultures of skin and ear swabs of 87 dogs in Delhi and performed fungal meta-barcode sequencing of ear and skin samples of 7 dogs with confirmed otitis externa (OE). Overall, 4.5% of dogs (4/87) with chronic skin infections contained evidence of <i>C. auris</i> in their ear canal (<i>n</i> = 3) and on their skin surface (<i>n</i> = 1). Of the three OE dogs with <i>C. auris</i> infection/colonisation, a diversity of fungi was observed, and their meta-barcode ITS sequence reads for <i>C. auris</i> ranged from 0.06% to 0.67%. Whole-genome s","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Jun","modification":"2025-07-04T03:05:59.336Z","creation":"2025-02-19T03:56:12.914Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10381908","cross_references":{"pubmed":["37504709"],"doi":["10.3390/jof9070720"]}}