Direct Detection of Emergent Fungal Pathogen Candida auris in Clinical Skin Swabs by SYBR Green-Based Quantitative PCR Assay-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Direct Detection of Emergent Fungal Pathogen Candida auris in Clinical Skin Swabs by SYBR Green-Based Quantitative PCR Assay

Published:2018-12 Issue:12 Volume:56 Page:
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Sexton D. Joseph¹,Kordalewska Milena²,Bentz Meghan L.¹,Welsh Rory M.¹,Perlin David S.²,Litvintseva Anastasia P.¹

Affiliation:

1. Mycotic Diseases Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

2. Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Abstract

The recent emergence of the multidrug-resistant and pathogenic yeast Candida auris continues to cause public health concern worldwide. C. auris is alarming because it causes health care-associated outbreaks and can establish invasive infections with high mortality rates.

Funder

CDC

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JCM.01337-18

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