Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

Epidemiology

• Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris Infections in Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease Patients, India, April–July 2020 (August 27, 2020)
• Candida auris-an impending threat: A case report from home (March 12, 2020)
• Global epidemiology of emerging Candida auris (December 2019)
• The global challenge of Candida auris in the intensive care unit. (May 2019)
• A Candida auris Outbreak and Its Control in an Intensive Care Setting. (Oct 2018)
• Simultaneous Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris on 3 Continents Confirmed by Whole-Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Analyses. (Dec 2016)
• Hospital-Associated Multicenter Outbreak of Emerging Fungus. Candida auris, Colombia (2016)

Pathogenesis

• Candida auris Forms High-Burden Biofilms in Skin Niche Conditions and on Porcine Skin (Jan 2020)
• Candida auris Biofilm Colonization on Skin Niche Conditions (commentary)

Infection Control

• Candida auris in the UK: Introduction, dissemination, and control (July 2020)
• Preparedness for Candida auris in Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP) hospitals, 2018 (March 2020)
• Candida auris: Disinfectants and Implications for Infection Control. (April 2018)
• First hospital outbreak of the globally emerging Candida auris in a European hospital. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. (2016)

Clinical Management

• Management of Candida auris in an inpatient acute rehabilitation setting (November 2019)
• Management of Patients with Candida auris Fungemia at Community Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2016–2018 (March 2019)
• Approach to the Investigation and Management of Patients With Candida auris, an Emerging Multidrug-Resistant Yeast (Jan 2018)

Antifungal susceptibility

• Improved efficacy of antifungal drugs in combination with monoterpene phenols against Candida auris (Jan 2020)
• Development of High-Level Echinocandin Resistance in a Patient With Recurrent Candida auris Candidemia Secondary to Chronic Candiduria. (July 2019)
• Antifungal activity and killing kinetics of anidulafungin, caspofungin and amphotericin B against Candida auris (12 May 2019)
• Candida auris Identification and Rapid Antifungal Susceptibility Testing Against Echinocandins by MALDI-TOF MS (Feb 2019)

General Review

• Candida auris: an Emerging Fungal Pathogen. (February 2018)
• Candida auris: a Review of the Literature. (January 2018)