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"Healthcare facilities in several countries have reported that … C. auris has been causing severe illness in hospitalized patients. In some patients, this can enter the bloodstream and spread throughout the body, causing serious invasive infections,” said the CDC.
The pathogen has been found to cause infections in wounds, the ears and the bloodstream. However, it remains unclear if it causes infections in the lung or bladder.
According to the public health agency, patients who have been hospitalized for a long time – including those with a central venous catheter or other lines or tubes attached to their body – are at highest risk of C. auris infection. Those who have previously received antibiotics or antifungal drugs are also at highest risk of contracting the pathogen.
Around 30 to 60 percent of people who caught C. auris have died, but the CDC remarked that many of them had other serious illnesses that the infection exacerbated.
“It is important to quickly identify C. auris in a hospitalized patient so that healthcare facilities can take special precautions to stop its spread,” said the agency.
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