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Case Reports
. 2021 Jun;49(3):523-525.
doi: 10.1007/s15010-020-01525-1. Epub 2020 Sep 22.

First case of Candida auris isolated from the bloodstream of a Mexican patient with serious gastrointestinal complications from severe endometriosis

J Jacobo Ayala-Gaytán #  1 , Alexandra M Montoya #  2 , Michel F Martínez-Resendez  3 , Claudia E Guajardo-Lara  4 , Rogelio de J Treviño-Rangel  2 , Lorena Salazar-Cavazos  2 , Jorge M Llaca-Díaz  2 , Gloria M González  5
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Case Reports

First case of Candida auris isolated from the bloodstream of a Mexican patient with serious gastrointestinal complications from severe endometriosis

J Jacobo Ayala-Gaytán et al. Infection. 2021 Jun.

Abstract

A 58-year-old woman was diagnosed with severe endometriosis and had multiple gastrointestinal tract complications for many years. Candida auris and C. parapsilosis were isolated from the bloodstream. Identification of C. auris was confirmed by amplification and sequencing of the internal transcriber spacer and the D1/D2 domain of the large rRNA gene subunit. Antifungal susceptibility was tested in both isolates using the Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute protocol M27-A3/S4. The patient evolved favorably with systemic antifungal therapy consisting of caspofungin and liposomal amphotericin B.

Keywords: Candida auris; Clinical case; Endometriosis; Identification; Lytic enzymes; Susceptibility.

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