[HTML][HTML] Drug-resistant fungi: an emerging challenge threatening our limited antifungal armamentarium

A Arastehfar, T Gabaldón, R Garcia-Rubio, JD Jenks… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The high clinical mortality and economic burden posed by invasive fungal infections (IFIs),
along with significant agricultural crop loss caused by various fungal species, has resulted in …

[HTML][HTML] Candida auris: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Pathogenesis, Antifungal Susceptibility, and Infection Control Measures to Combat the Spread of Infections in …

S Ahmad, W Alfouzan - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Candida auris, a recently recognized, often multidrug-resistant yeast, has become a
significant fungal pathogen due to its ability to cause invasive infections and outbreaks in …

Tracing the evolutionary history and global expansion of Candida auris using population genomic analyses

NA Chow, JF Muñoz, L Gade, EL Berkow, X Li… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Candida auris has emerged globally as a multidrug-resistant yeast that can spread via
nosocomial transmission. An initial phylogenetic study of isolates from Japan, India …

Candida auris pan-drug-resistant to four classes of antifungal agents

SE Jacobs, JL Jacobs, EK Dennis… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Candida auris is an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat due to its global emergence, high
mortality, and persistent transmissions. Nearly half of C. auris clinical and surveillance cases …

[HTML][HTML] On the emergence, spread and resistance of Candida auris: host, pathogen and environmental tipping points

A Chakrabarti, P Sood - Journal of medical microbiology, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
Over a decade ago, a multidrug-resistant nosocomial fungus Candida auris emerged
worldwide and has since become a significant challenge for clinicians and microbiologists …

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

J Nobrega de Almeida Jr, IB Brandão, EC Francisco… - Mycoses, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To describe the first outbreak of Candida auris in Brazil, including
epidemiological, clinical and microbiological data. Methods After the first Candida auris …

Comparison of in vivo pathogenicity of four Candida auris clades in a neutropenic bloodstream infection murine model

L Forgács, AM Borman, E Prépost, Z Tóth… - Emerging microbes & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Candida auris is an emerging worldwide concern, but comparative data about the virulence
of different C. auris lineages in mammalian hosts is lacking. Different isolates of the four …

[HTML][HTML] The many faces of Candida auris: Phenotypic and strain variation in an emerging pathogen

DJ Santana, G Zhao, TR O'Meara - Plos Pathogens, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Candida auris is an emerging fungal pathogen with unusual evolutionary history—there are
multiple distinct phylogeographic clades showing a near simultaneous transition from a …

[HTML][HTML] Novel Environmental Niches for Candida auris: Isolation from a Coastal Habitat in Colombia

P Escandón - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate change has been proposed as a set of factors that affect the frequency, distribution,
and morbimortality of many infectious diseases, in which mycosis has also been impacted …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular Epidemiology of Candida Auris Outbreak in a Major Secondary-Care Hospital in Kuwait

W Alfouzan, S Ahmad, R Dhar, M Asadzadeh… - Journal of Fungi, 2020 - mdpi.com
The emerging, often multidrug-resistant Candida auris is increasingly being associated with
outbreaks in healthcare facilities. Here we describe the molecular epidemiology of a C. auris …