On the emergence of Candida auris: climate change, azoles, swamps, and birds

A Casadevall, DP Kontoyiannis, V Robert - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
The most enigmatic aspect of the rise of Candida auris as a human pathogen is that it
emerged simultaneously on three continents, with each clade being genetically distinct …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change, animals, and Candida auris: insights into the ecological niche of a new species from a One Health approach

V Garcia-Bustos, MD Cabañero-Navalon… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background One of the most puzzling traits of Candida auris is the recent simultaneous and
independent emergence of five genetically distinct clades on three continents. Global …

Environmental Candida auris and the global warming emergence hypothesis

A Casadevall, DP Kontoyiannis, V Robert - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Global warming was proposed to be a contributing cause for the nearly simultaneous
emergence of different clades of Candida auris as a nosocomial pathogen in different …

On the Origins of a Species: What Might Explain the Rise of Candida auris?

BR Jackson, N Chow, K Forsberg, AP Litvintseva… - Journal of Fungi, 2019 - mdpi.com
Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast first described in 2009 that has since
caused healthcare-associated outbreaks of severe human infections around the world. In …

Global epidemiology of emerging Candida auris

J Rhodes, MC Fisher - Current opinion in microbiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Candida auris is a newly identified and globally emerging fungal infection.•C.
auris shows extensive innate and acquired resistance to antifungal drugs.•The fungus is …

Tracing the evolutionary history and global expansion of Candida auris using population genomic analyses

NA Chow, JF Muñoz, L Gade, EL Berkow, X Li… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Candida auris has emerged globally as a multidrug-resistant yeast that can spread via
nosocomial transmission. An initial phylogenetic study of isolates from Japan, India …

[HTML][HTML] What do we know about the biology of the emerging fungal pathogen of humans Candida auris?

GB Ruiz, A Lorenz - Microbiological Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Candida auris is a worrisome fungal pathogen of humans which emerged merely about a
decade ago. Ever since then the scientific community worked hard to understand clinically …

Nine Things Genomics Can Tell Us About Candida auris

AD Chybowska, DS Childers, RA Farrer - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Candida auris is a recently emerged multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen causing severe
illness in hospitalized patients. C. auris is most closely related to a few environmental or …

Candida auris—the growing menace to global health

SA Lone, A Ahmad - Mycoses, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
summary A paradigm shift of candidiasis from Candida albicans to non‐albicans Candida
species has fundamentally increased with the advent of C. auris. C. auris, despite being a …

The first isolate of Candida auris in China: clinical and biological aspects

X Wang, J Bing, Q Zheng, F Zhang, J Liu… - Emerging microbes & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The emerging human fungal pathogen Candida auris has been recognized as a multidrug
resistant species and is associated with high mortality. This fungus was first described in …