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Candida auris Clinical Isolates Associated with Outbreak in Neonatal Unit of Tertiary Academic Hospital, South Africa
25 Sept 2023
Abstract excerpt
Candida auris was first detected at a university-affiliated hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2009. We used whole-genome sequencing to describe the molecular epidemiology of C. auris in the same hospital during 2016-2020; the neonatal unit had a persistent outbreak beginning in June 2019. Of 287 cases with culture-confirmed C. auris infection identified through laboratory surveillance, 207 (72%) had...
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