Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

Epidemiology

• Clonal Candida auris and ESKAPE pathogens on the skin of residents of nursing homes (February 26, 2025)
• Candida auris: Epidemiology and Antifungal Strategy (December 10, 2024)
• Detection and characterisation of a sixth Candida auris clade in Singapore: a genomic and phenotypic study (September, 2024)
• Epidemiology of Invasive Candidiasis (August 27, 2024)
• Prevalence of Acinetobacter baumannii and Candida auris in Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilation (October 12, 2023)
• Candida auris: another frontier in the battle against antimicrobial resistance (June 07, 2023)
• Worsening Spread of Candida auris in the United States, 2019 to 2021 (March 21, 2023)
• Sampling efficiency of Candida auris from healthcare surfaces: culture and nonculture detection methods (June 22, 2021)
• Hospital-Associated Multicenter Outbreak of Emerging Fungus. Candida auris, Colombia, 2016 (June 13, 2019)
• A Candida auris Outbreak and Its Control in an Intensive Care Setting (October 03, 2018)
• Candida auris: an Emerging Fungal Pathogen (January 24, 2018)
• The Candida auris Alert: Facts and Perspectives (November 18, 2017)
• Candida auris: a Review of the Literature (November 15, 2017)
• First hospital outbreak of the globally emerging Candida auris in a European hospital (October 19, 2016)

Clinical Management

• Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of candidiasis: an initiative of the ECMM in cooperation with ISHAM and ASM (February 13, 2025)
• Candida auris Infections (November 20, 2024)
• Factors Associated With Poor Clinical and Microbiologic Outcomes in Candida auris Bloodstream Infection: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study (August 13, 2024)
• Candida auris: new clade, same challenges (September 03, 2024)
• Candida auris in US Correctional Facilities (March 2024)
• Management of Candida auris (January 22, 2024)
• Long-range air dispersion of Candida auris in a cardiothoracic unit outbreak in Hong Kong (December, 2023)
• Rapid Environmental Contamination With Candida auris and Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Pathogens Near Colonized Patients (December 06, 2023)
• Candida auris: an emerging antimicrobial-resistant organism with the highest level of concern (April 26, 2023)
• Guideline adherence and survival of patients with candidaemia in Europe: results from the ECMM Candida III multinational European observational cohort study (February 15, 2023)
• Proactive infection control measures to prevent nosocomial transmission of Candida auris in Hong Kong (January 14, 2023)
• Candida auris, a singular emergent pathogenic yeast: its resistance and new therapeutic alternatives (October 06, 2022)
• Comparative outcomes of Candida auris bloodstream infections: a multicenter retrospective case–control study (September 05, 2022)
• Successful implementation of the CDC recommendations during the care of 2 patients with Candida auris in in-patient rehabilitation and intensive care settings. (March 24, 2021)
• Inactivation of Candida auris and Candida albicans by ultraviolet-C (May 21, 2021)
• Integrated genomic, epidemiologic investigation of Candida auris skin colonization in a skilled nursing facility (June 21, 2021)
• Factors Associated With Candida auris Colonization and Transmission in Skilled Nursing Facilities With Ventilator Units, New York, 2016–2018 (September 28, 2020)
• Clinical Outcomes of Patients Treated for Candida auris Infections in a Multisite Health System, Illinois, USA (May, 2020)
• Implementing Admission Screening for Candida auris (November 02, 2020)
• Susceptibility of Candida auris and Candida albicans to 21 germicides used in healthcare facilities (February 15, 2019)
• The global challenge of Candida auris in the intensive care unit (May 02, 2019)
• Candida auris: Disinfectants and Implications for Infection Control. Front Microbiol (April 12, 2018)
• Controlling a possible outbreak of Candida auris infection: lessons learnt from multiple interventions (September 19, 2017)
• Approach to the Investigation and Management of Patients With Candida auris, an Emerging Multidrug-Resistant Yeast (August 17, 2017)
• Efficacy of 23 commonly used liquid disinfectants against Candida auris isolates from the 4 major clades (August 10, 2017)
• Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Candidiasis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (December 16, 2015)

Other Information

• A Candida auris–specific adhesin, Scf1, governs surface association, colonization, and virulence (September 28, 2023)
• Biofilm-Forming Capability of Highly Virulent, Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris (February, 2017)