Fatal Breakthrough Candidemia in an Immunocompromised Patient in Kuwait Due to Candida auris Exhibiting Reduced Susceptibility to Echinocandins and Carrying a Novel Mutation in Hotspot-1 of FKS1

Candida auris is an emerging yeast pathogen that has recently caused major outbreaks in healthcare facilities worldwide. Clinical C. auris isolates are usually resistant to fluconazole and readily develop resistance to echinocandins and amphotericin B (AMB) during treatment. We describe here an inte...

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Autores principales: Al-Obaid, Inaam, Asadzadeh, Mohammad, Ahmad, Suhail, Alobaid, Khaled, Alfouzan, Wadha, Bafna, Ritu, Emara, Maha, Joseph, Leena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8953900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35330269
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof8030267

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