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Open Access 01-12-2020 | Short report
Prevalence of Candida auris in Canadian acute care hospitals among at-risk patients, 2018
Published in: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control | Issue 1/2020
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To identify the prevalence of C. auris in Canadian patients who are potentially at risk for colonization, we screened 488 patients who were either hospitalized abroad, had a carbapenemase-producing organism (CPO), or were in units with high antifungal use. Two patients were colonized with C. auris; both had received healthcare in India and had a CPO. Among 35 patients who had recently received healthcare in the Indian subcontinent and were CPO colonized or infected, the prevalence of C. auris was 5.7%.