What Do We Know about Candida auris? State of the Art, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Directions

V Garcia-Bustos, MD Cabanero-Navalon, A Ruiz-Saurí… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Candida auris has unprecedently emerged as a multidrug resistant fungal pathogen,
considered a serious global threat due to its potential to cause nosocomial outbreaks and …

Mechanisms of pathogenicity for the emerging fungus Candida auris

MV Horton, AM Holt, JE Nett - Plos Pathogens, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Candida auris recently emerged as an urgent public health threat, causing outbreaks of
invasive infections in healthcare settings throughout the world. This fungal pathogen persists …

The many faces of Candida auris: Phenotypic and strain variation in an emerging pathogen

DJ Santana, G Zhao, TR O'Meara - Plos Pathogens, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Candida auris is an emerging fungal pathogen with unusual evolutionary history—there are
multiple distinct phylogeographic clades showing a near simultaneous transition from a …

Virulence of Candida auris from different clinical origins in Caenorhabditis elegans and Galleria mellonella host models

A Hernando-Ortiz, E Mateo, A Perez-Rodriguez… - Virulence, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen responsible for
nosocomial outbreaks of invasive candidiasis. Although several studies on the pathogenicity …

Galleria mellonella Larvae as a Model for Investigating Fungal—Host Interactions

A Curtis, U Binder, K Kavanagh - Frontiers in Fungal Biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Galleria mellonella larvae have become a widely accepted and utilised infection model due
to the functional homology displayed between their immune response to infection and that …

Candida auris—a systematic review to inform the world health organization fungal priority pathogens list

HY Kim, TA Nguyen, S Kidd, J Chambers… - Medical …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022 developed a fungal priority
pathogen list. Candida auris was ultimately ranked as a critical priority pathogen. PubMed …

Characterization of the Differential Pathogenicity of Candida auris in a Galleria mellonella Infection Model

V Garcia-Bustos, A Ruiz-Saurí, A Ruiz-Gaitán… - Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Candida auris is an emergent multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen considered a severe
global threat due to its capacity to cause nosocomial outbreaks and deep-seated infections …

The Galleria mellonella infection model as a system to investigate the virulence of Candida auris strains

D Romera, JJ Aguilera-Correa… - Pathogens and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Candida auris is a multiresistant pathogenic yeast commonly isolated from bloodstream
infections in immunocompromised patients. In this work, we infected Galleria mellonella …

In Vitro Antifungal Activity of Three Synthetic Peptides against Candida auris and Other Candida Species of Medical Importance

R Torres, A Barreto-Santamaría, G Arévalo-Pinzón… - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Candidiasis is an opportunistic infection affecting immunosuppressed and hospitalized
patients, with mortality rates approaching 40% in Colombia. The growing pharmacological …

Pathogenicity Assessment of Colombian Strains of Candida auris in the Galleria mellonella Invertebrate Model

SK Carvajal, M Alvarado, YM Rodríguez… - Journal of fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Candida auris, first described in 2009, is an opportunistic pathogenic yeast that causes
nosocomial outbreaks around the world, with high mortality rates associated with therapeutic …