CDC Candida auris Clinical Update

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is informing clinicians, laboratorians, and public health officials of a Candida auris (C. auris) Clinical Update. This is an update to a June 2016 clinical alert for C. auris. Recommendations, resources, and findings from ongoing collaborative investigations of U.S. cases of C. auris conducted by state and local public health agencies and CDC are included.

The clinical update can be found here: https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/diseases/candidiasis/c-auris-alert-09-17.html

Additional resources:

C. auris website: https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/diseases/candidiasis/candida-auris.html

MMWR update (May 2017): https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6619a7.htm?s_cid=mm6619a7_w