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| Title |
First hospital outbreak of the globally emerging Candida auris in a European hospital
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| Published in |
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, October 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13756-016-0132-5 |
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| Authors |
Silke Schelenz, Ferry Hagen, Johanna L. Rhodes, Alireza Abdolrasouli, Anuradha Chowdhary, Anne Hall, Lisa Ryan, Joanne Shackleton, Richard Trimlett, Jacques F. Meis, Darius Armstrong-James, Matthew C. Fisher |
| Abstract |
Candida auris is a globally emerging multidrug resistant fungal pathogen causing nosocomial transmission. We report an ongoing outbreak of C. auris in a London cardio-thoracic center between April 2015 and July 2016. This is the first report of C. auris in Europe and the largest outbreak so far. We describe the identification, investigation and implementation of control measures. Data on C. auris case demographics, environmental screening, implementation of infection prevention/control measures, and antifungal susceptibility of patient isolates were prospectively recorded then analysed retrospectively. Speciation of C. auris was performed by MALDI-TOF and typing of outbreak isolates performed by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP). This report describes an ongoing outbreak of 50 C. auris cases over the first 16 month (April 2015 to July 2016) within a single Hospital Trust in London. A total of 44 % (n = 22/50) patients developed possible or proven C. auris infection with a candidaemia rate of 18 % (n = 9/50). Environmental sampling showed persistent presence of the yeast around bed space areas. Implementation of strict infection and prevention control measures included: isolation of cases and their contacts, wearing of personal protective clothing by health care workers, screening of patients on affected wards, skin decontamination with chlorhexidine, environmental cleaning with chorine based reagents and hydrogen peroxide vapour. Genotyping with AFLP demonstrated that C. auris isolates from the same geographic region clustered. This ongoing outbreak with genotypically closely related C. auris highlights the importance of appropriate species identification and rapid detection of cases in order to contain hospital acquired transmission. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 105 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 27 | 26% |
| United States | 16 | 15% |
| Ireland | 3 | 3% |
| Spain | 2 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 2% |
| Korea, Democratic People's Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Uruguay | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 8 | 8% |
| Unknown | 43 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 63 | 60% |
| Scientists | 23 | 22% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 17 | 16% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 569 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 565 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 79 | 14% |
| Researcher | 70 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 66 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 65 | 11% |
| Other | 39 | 7% |
| Other | 98 | 17% |
| Unknown | 152 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 103 | 18% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 81 | 14% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 78 | 14% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 40 | 7% |
| Chemistry | 15 | 3% |
| Other | 76 | 13% |
| Unknown | 176 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 443. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 May 2023.
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