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Case Reports
. 2019 Sep;25(9):1780-1781.
doi: 10.3201/eid2509.190686. Epub 2019 Sep 17.

Potential Fifth Clade of Candida auris, Iran, 2018

Nancy A Chow, Theun de Groot, Hamid Badali, Mahdi Abastabar, Tom M Chiller, Jacques F Meis
Case Reports

Potential Fifth Clade of Candida auris, Iran, 2018

Nancy A Chow et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2019 Sep.

Abstract

Four major clades of Candida auris have been described, and all infections have clustered in these 4 clades. We identified an isolate representative of a potential fifth clade, separated from the other clades by >200,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms, in a patient in Iran who had never traveled outside the country.

Keywords: Candida auris; antimicrobial resistance; clades; clonal; fungal infections; fungi; genotyping; multidrug-resistant infections; typing; whole-genome sequencing.

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Major clades of Candida auris. Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree shows isolates from C. auris cases from 10 countries. Circles at nodes indicate separations with a bootstrap value >99%.
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