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Comment
. 2019 Dec 19;23(1):416.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-019-2702-4.

Global warming "heating up" the ICU through Candida auris infections: the climate changes theory

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Global warming "heating up" the ICU through Candida auris infections: the climate changes theory

Giovanni Misseri et al. Crit Care. .
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GM and MI declare to have no competing interests. AC is member of the Advisory Board of Critical Care.

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Global warming and the climate changes theory for C. auris emergence and spread. Rising ambient temperatures (caused by human activities) might have selected thermotolerant yeasts in wetlands; subsequently, acquiring opportunistic traits, C. auris might have spread through different ecosystems (wetlands, rural, and urban areas) thanks to intermediate avian hosts; following development of resistance and resilience through interspecies transmission, C. auris invades healthcare settings, leading to persistent outbreaks and causing infections in susceptible critically ill patients

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