Candida auris: deadly fungal infections spreading across US at ‘worrisome’ rate

Between 2020 and 2021 cases ofCandida auris doubled, with symptoms including antibiotic-resistant high fever with chillsPotentially deadly fungal infections withCandida auris are spreading rapidly in US healthcare facilities, with cases nearly doubling between 2020 and 2021, theUS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday.The number of cases rose by 44% to 476 in 2019, up from 330 in 2018, and subsequently by 59% to 756 in 2020 and by an additional 95% to 1,471 in 2021, the agency ’s researchers reported on Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine.Continue reading...
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