Candida auris Alert The US CDC and the Public Health Agency of Canada have recently raised an alert to an emerging multidrug-resistant (MDR) yeast, Candida auris (C. auris), that is causing potentially lethal, invasive infections in health-care settings. Two countries have described healthcare outbreaks of C. auris, and analysis of these clusters suggest that C. auris is being transmitted within health-care facilities. No cases have been identified in Canada, but...
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