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Abstract

We recently isolated from a blood culture and cutaneous swabs of a patient in her mid-70s. Our routine phenotypic methods failed to identify the microorganism, but it was identified by molecular tests and MALDI-TOF MS analysis. Our report, the first from Italy, further underlines the geographically wide distribution of and the need to confirm species identification of any suspicious colony as soon as possible to stop its spread.

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Isolation of Candida auris from invasive and non-invasive samples of a patient suffering from vascular disease, Italy, July 2019
<p class="citation"> <span>Citation style for this article:</span> <span class="meta-value authors"> <a href="/search?value1=Francesca+Crea&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Crea Francesca</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Giulia+Codda&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Codda Giulia</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Andrea+Orsi&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Orsi Andrea</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Alberto+Battaglini&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Battaglini Alberto</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Daniele+Roberto+Giacobbe&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Giacobbe Daniele Roberto</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Emanuele+Delfino&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Delfino Emanuele</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Riccardo+Ungaro&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Ungaro Riccardo</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Anna+Marchese&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Marchese Anna</a></span>. Isolation of Candida auris from invasive and non-invasive samples of a patient suffering from vascular disease, Italy, July 2019. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2019;24(37):pii=1900549. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.37.1900549" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.37.1900549</a> <span class="ES_Article_citation"> <span class="generated">Received</span>: 02 Sept 2019;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="generated">Accepted</span>: 11 Sept 2019 </span> </p>
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