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Case Reports
. 2021 Sep;31(3):101139.
doi: 10.1016/j.mycmed.2021.101139. Epub 2021 Apr 8.

Earliest case of Candida auris infection imported in 2007 in Europe from India prior to the 2009 description in Japan

Marie Desnos-Ollivier  1 , Arnaud Fekkar  2 , Stéphane Bretagne  3
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Earliest case of Candida auris infection imported in 2007 in Europe from India prior to the 2009 description in Japan

Marie Desnos-Ollivier et al. J Mycol Med. 2021 Sep.

Abstract

Candida auris is an emerging pathogen frequently associated with multidrug resistance and involved in many worldwide outbreaks. We here report the first European imported case in France due to isolate belonging of the South Indian clade I and the importance of prevention measure to avoid fungal spreading.

Keywords: Candida auris; Europe; India; Short tandem repeat; Whole genome sequencing.

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