Novel case of Candida auris in the Veterans Health Administration and in the state of South Carolina

The emerging pathogen Candida auris poses major infection prevention challenges as the organism can remain on surfaces for unknown timeframes and can cause severe illness. These challenges are exacerbated in the health care environment with potential spread to a vulnerable population. This report de...

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Autores principales: Austin, Lucy, Guild, Paula, Rovinski, Christine, Osman, Jailan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mosby 2022
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9221678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35752383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.05.020
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description The emerging pathogen Candida auris poses major infection prevention challenges as the organism can remain on surfaces for unknown timeframes and can cause severe illness. These challenges are exacerbated in the health care environment with potential spread to a vulnerable population. This report describes the Columbia Veterans Administration Health Care System's encounter with this significant pathogen beginning in October 2020 during the COVID19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-92216782022-06-24 Novel case of Candida auris in the Veterans Health Administration and in the state of South Carolina Austin, Lucy Guild, Paula Rovinski, Christine Osman, Jailan Am J Infect Control Brief Report The emerging pathogen Candida auris poses major infection prevention challenges as the organism can remain on surfaces for unknown timeframes and can cause severe illness. These challenges are exacerbated in the health care environment with potential spread to a vulnerable population. This report describes the Columbia Veterans Administration Health Care System's encounter with this significant pathogen beginning in October 2020 during the COVID19 pandemic. Mosby 2022-11 2022-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9221678/ /pubmed/35752383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.05.020 Text en Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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