Candida auris in the Age of Resistance

Candida auris (C. auris) is an opportunistic ascomycetous budding yeast that has been emerging as an invasive, multidrug-resistant pathogen over the past 10 years since its discovery. This fungi is the first to be labeled as a public health threat according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) a...

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Autores principales: Oh, Michael, Heyl, Jonathan, Babu, Benson A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7549327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33062463
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10334
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description Candida auris (C. auris) is an opportunistic ascomycetous budding yeast that has been emerging as an invasive, multidrug-resistant pathogen over the past 10 years since its discovery. This fungi is the first to be labeled as a public health threat according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and has since become a major problem in the United States. This serves as a detailed overview of the various factors contributing to the pathogenicity of C. auris.
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spelling pubmed-75493272020-10-13 Candida auris in the Age of Resistance Oh, Michael Heyl, Jonathan Babu, Benson A Cureus Internal Medicine Candida auris (C. auris) is an opportunistic ascomycetous budding yeast that has been emerging as an invasive, multidrug-resistant pathogen over the past 10 years since its discovery. This fungi is the first to be labeled as a public health threat according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and has since become a major problem in the United States. This serves as a detailed overview of the various factors contributing to the pathogenicity of C. auris. Cureus 2020-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7549327/ /pubmed/33062463 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10334 Text en Copyright © 2020, Oh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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