Ellora N Karmarkar, Kathleen O'Donnell, Christopher Prestel, Kaitlin Forsberg, Lalitha Gade, Seema Jain, Douglas Schan, Nancy Chow, Darby McDermott, John Rossow, Mitsuru Toda, Ryan Ruiz, Sopheay Hun, Jennifer L Dale, Annastasia Gross, Tyler Maruca, Janet Glowicz, Richard Brooks, Hosniyeh Bagheri, Teresa Nelson, Nicole Gualandi, Zenith Khwaja, Sam Horwich-Scholefield, Josh Jacobs, Michele Cheung, Maroya Walters, Kara Jacobs-Slifka, Nimalie D Stone, Lydia Mikhail, Sudha Chaturvedi, Liore Klein, Paula Snippes Vagnone, Emily Schneider, Elizabeth L Berkow, Brendan R Jackson, Snigdha Vallabhaneni, Matthew Zahn, Erin Epson
BACKGROUND: Candida auris , a multidrug-resistant yeast, can spread rapidly in ventilator-capable skilled-nursing facilities (vSNFs) and long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs). In 2018, a laboratory serving LTACHs in southern California began identifying species of Candida that were detected in urine specimens to enhance surveillance of C auris , and C auris was identified in February 2019 in a patient in an Orange County (OC), California, LTACH. Further investigation identified C auris at 3 associated facilities...
November 2021: Annals of Internal Medicine