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US Centers for Disease Control has identified over a dozen cases of antibiotic-resistant fungus, Candida auris.
Four of the first seven patients infected with it have died.
Typically treated with a class of antifungal drugs called echinocandins but some now found to be resistant to all three major classes of medications.
Patients probably acquired their infections locally.
Candida auris can spread quite easily with traces found on patient’s mattress, furniture and windowsill.
