Cases of a deadly fungus, Candida aurist, have tripled in the U.S. in the past few years, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
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There were a total of 3,270 clinical cases and 7,413 screening cases of C. auris from 2019 to 2021, with 17 states reporting their initial cases. Treatment-resistant cases rose from six pan-resistant and three echinocandin-resistant isolates reported in 2020 to seven pan-resistant and 19 echinocandin-resistant isolates in 2021.
The CDC's 2019 Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report identified C. auris as an urgent threat in the U.S. And last year, the World Health Organization put it on the fungal priority pathogens list. WHO assistant director-general of antimicrobial resistance Hanan Balkhy said in a press release at the time,"fungal infections are growing, and are ever more resistant to treatments, becoming a public health concern worldwide.
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