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Health officials find first cases of new superbug in US
Health officials find first cases of new superbug in US
Just five months after federal health officials asked hospitals and physicians to be on the lookout for an often-fatal, antibiotic-resistant fungus called Candida auris, 13 cases have been reported, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.It is the first time that the fungus, which is easily misidentified in lab tests as a more common candida yeast infection, has been found in the US, and four of the first seven patients with it have died."We need to act now to better understand, contain and stop the spread of this drug-resistant fungus," the CDC's director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, said in a statement."This is an emerging threat, and we need to protect vulnerable patients and others."C. auris's emergence and apparent global spread — it was first identified in Japan in 2009 and since then has been found in a dozen countries on four continents — put the pathogen on the ever-growing list of superbugs, disease-causing microbes that are resistant to many and, in some cases, all antibiotics.
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CDC reports first US cases of drug-resistant Candida auris
CDC reports first US cases of drug-resistant Candida auris
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says 13 cases of Candida auris, an emerging drug-resistant yeast that can cause fatal invasive infections, have been identified in the United States.In today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), investigators describe seven C auris cases that occurred from May 2013 to June 2016.The cases involve patients at hospitals in four states—New York, Maryland, Illinois, and New Jersey—who had been hospitalized with serious underlying medical conditions.The other six cases are still under investigation.
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CDC identifies first cases of 'serious, sometimes fatal fungal i
CDC identifies first cases of 'serious, sometimes fatal fungal i
The CDC identifies the first cases of what it calls "a serious and sometimes fatal fungal infection" in the U.S. And, it's often drug-resistant.The CDC found 13 cases of the infection Candida auris."What's concerning about it is that it's primarily being seen in healthcare settings, in people who are hospitalized," said LSU Health Infectious Diseases expert Dr. Fred Lopez.The CDC said the infection was found in hospitalized patients in New York, Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey, who all had "serious underlying medical conditions."
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