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Isolation of Candida auris from cystic fibrosis patient, Greece, April 2019
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsLevantia Zachariadoumicro paidon-agiasofia.gr
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Citation style for this article: . Isolation of Candida auris from cystic fibrosis patient, Greece, April 2019. Euro Surveill. 2019;24(29):pii=1900400. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.29.1900400 Received: 23 Jun 2019; Accepted: 15 Jul 2019
Abstract
We report the first isolation of Candida auris in Greece from a sputum culture of a cystic fibrosis patient in their 20s under posaconazole treatment. The pathogen was identified as C. duobushaemulonii by VITEK2YST, but as C. auris by MALDI-TOF MS. This case underscores the need for species-level identification of all non-albicans Candida (NAC) isolates from cystic fibrosis patients and patients with predisposing factors to fungal infection.
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