Isolation of Candida auris from Ear of Otherwise Healthy Patient, Austria, 2018

The emerging pathogen Candida auris is isolated mostly from hospitalized patients and often shows multidrug resistance. We report on the isolation of this yeast in Austria from an outpatient’s auditory canal. The isolate showed good susceptibility against antifungals except for echinocandins; the pa...

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Autores principales: Pekard-Amenitsch, Shiva, Schriebl, Agnes, Posawetz, Wilhelm, Willinger, Birgit, Kölli, Bettina, Buzina, Walter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6056136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30016243
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2408.180495
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author Pekard-Amenitsch, Shiva
Schriebl, Agnes
Posawetz, Wilhelm
Willinger, Birgit
Kölli, Bettina
Buzina, Walter
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description The emerging pathogen Candida auris is isolated mostly from hospitalized patients and often shows multidrug resistance. We report on the isolation of this yeast in Austria from an outpatient’s auditory canal. The isolate showed good susceptibility against antifungals except for echinocandins; the patient was treated successfully with topical administration of nystatin.
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spelling pubmed-60561362018-08-01 Isolation of Candida auris from Ear of Otherwise Healthy Patient, Austria, 2018 Pekard-Amenitsch, Shiva Schriebl, Agnes Posawetz, Wilhelm Willinger, Birgit Kölli, Bettina Buzina, Walter Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter The emerging pathogen Candida auris is isolated mostly from hospitalized patients and often shows multidrug resistance. We report on the isolation of this yeast in Austria from an outpatient’s auditory canal. The isolate showed good susceptibility against antifungals except for echinocandins; the patient was treated successfully with topical administration of nystatin. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6056136/ /pubmed/30016243 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2408.180495 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Pekard-Amenitsch, Shiva
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Posawetz, Wilhelm
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Isolation of Candida auris from Ear of Otherwise Healthy Patient, Austria, 2018
title Isolation of Candida auris from Ear of Otherwise Healthy Patient, Austria, 2018
title_full Isolation of Candida auris from Ear of Otherwise Healthy Patient, Austria, 2018
title_fullStr Isolation of Candida auris from Ear of Otherwise Healthy Patient, Austria, 2018
title_full_unstemmed Isolation of Candida auris from Ear of Otherwise Healthy Patient, Austria, 2018
title_short Isolation of Candida auris from Ear of Otherwise Healthy Patient, Austria, 2018
title_sort isolation of candida auris from ear of otherwise healthy patient, austria, 2018
topic Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6056136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30016243
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2408.180495
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