New clonal strain of Candida auris, Delhi, India

TY - JOUR

T1 - New clonal strain of Candida auris, Delhi, India

AU - Chowdhary, Anuradha

AU - Sharma, Cheshta

AU - Duggal, Shalini

AU - Agarwal, Kshitij

AU - Prakash, Anupam

AU - Singh, Pradeep Kumar

AU - Jain, Sarika

AU - Kathuria, Shallu

AU - Randhawa, Harbans S

AU - Hagen, Ferry

AU - Meis, Jacques F

PY - 2013/10

Y1 - 2013/10

N2 - A new clonal strain of Candida auris is an emerging etiologic agent of fungemia in Delhi, India. In 12 patients in 2 hospitals, it was resistant to fluconazole and genotypically distinct from isolates from South Korea and Japan, as revealed by M13 and amplified fragment length polymorphism typing.

AB - A new clonal strain of Candida auris is an emerging etiologic agent of fungemia in Delhi, India. In 12 patients in 2 hospitals, it was resistant to fluconazole and genotypically distinct from isolates from South Korea and Japan, as revealed by M13 and amplified fragment length polymorphism typing.

KW - Aged

KW - Antifungal Agents/pharmacology

KW - Candida/classification

KW - Candidiasis/drug therapy

KW - Child

KW - DNA, Fungal/genetics

KW - DNA, Ribosomal Spacer/genetics

KW - Drug Resistance, Fungal

KW - Female

KW - Fluconazole/pharmacology

KW - Fungemia/drug therapy

KW - Humans

KW - India

KW - Infant

KW - Infant, Newborn

KW - Male

KW - Microbial Sensitivity Tests

KW - Middle Aged

KW - Multilocus Sequence Typing

KW - Phylogeny

KW - Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length

KW - Treatment Outcome

U2 - 10.3201/eid1910.130393

DO - 10.3201/eid1910.130393

M3 - Article

C2 - 24048006

SN - 1080-6040

VL - 19

SP - 1670

EP - 1673

JO - Emerging Infectious Diseases

JF - Emerging Infectious Diseases

IS - 10

ER -