Candida auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare

The emerging yeast Candida auris has disseminated worldwide. We report on 7 cases identified in Germany during 2015–2017. In 6 of these cases, C. auris was isolated from patients previously hospitalized abroad. Whole-genome sequencing and epidemiologic analyses revealed that all patients in Germany...

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Autores principales: Hamprecht, Axel, Barber, Amelia E., Mellinghoff, Sibylle C., Thelen, Philipp, Walther, Grit, Yu, Yanying, Neurgaonkar, Priya, Dandekar, Thomas, Cornely, Oliver A., Martin, Ronny, Kurzai, Oliver
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6711216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31223105
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2509.190262
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author Hamprecht, Axel
Barber, Amelia E.
Mellinghoff, Sibylle C.
Thelen, Philipp
Walther, Grit
Yu, Yanying
Neurgaonkar, Priya
Dandekar, Thomas
Cornely, Oliver A.
Martin, Ronny
Kurzai, Oliver
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Barber, Amelia E.
Mellinghoff, Sibylle C.
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Cornely, Oliver A.
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description The emerging yeast Candida auris has disseminated worldwide. We report on 7 cases identified in Germany during 2015–2017. In 6 of these cases, C. auris was isolated from patients previously hospitalized abroad. Whole-genome sequencing and epidemiologic analyses revealed that all patients in Germany were infected with different strains.
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spelling pubmed-67112162019-09-04 Candida auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare Hamprecht, Axel Barber, Amelia E. Mellinghoff, Sibylle C. Thelen, Philipp Walther, Grit Yu, Yanying Neurgaonkar, Priya Dandekar, Thomas Cornely, Oliver A. Martin, Ronny Kurzai, Oliver Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter The emerging yeast Candida auris has disseminated worldwide. We report on 7 cases identified in Germany during 2015–2017. In 6 of these cases, C. auris was isolated from patients previously hospitalized abroad. Whole-genome sequencing and epidemiologic analyses revealed that all patients in Germany were infected with different strains. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6711216/ /pubmed/31223105 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2509.190262 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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Hamprecht, Axel
Barber, Amelia E.
Mellinghoff, Sibylle C.
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Walther, Grit
Yu, Yanying
Neurgaonkar, Priya
Dandekar, Thomas
Cornely, Oliver A.
Martin, Ronny
Kurzai, Oliver
Candida auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare
title Candida auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare
title_full Candida auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare
title_fullStr Candida auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare
title_full_unstemmed Candida auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare
title_short Candida auris in Germany and Previous Exposure to Foreign Healthcare
title_sort candida auris in germany and previous exposure to foreign healthcare
topic Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6711216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31223105
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2509.190262
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