Scientists in Singapore have discovered a new family member of a nightmare fungus.
C. auriswas first discovered in 2009.
Its also hard tofully eradicateonce established in an environment.
A petri dish containing Candida auris.© Nicolas Armer/picture alliance via Getty
This new research,publishedlast month inTheLancet Microbe, is the latest sign thatC.
aurishas plenty more tricks up its sleeves.
Doctors from the Singapore General Hospital had come across a patient carrying a strain ofC.
aurisin April 2023 as part of a routine screening program.
The team then went back and tested strains ofC.
We report the discovery of a proposed sixth major clade ofC.
The silver lining to this discovery is that the hospital cases were all still treatable with conventional antifungals.
And more needs to be done to ensure the timely surveillance and detection of this looming fungal menace.
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