First case of Candida auris in Switzerland: discussion about preventive strategies

Arnaud Riat; Dionysios Neofytos; Alix T. Coste; Stephan Harbarth; Alain Bizzini; Bruno Grandbastien; Jerome Pugin; Frederic Lamoth

doi:10.4414/smw.2018.14622

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First case of Candida auris in Switzerland: discussion about preventive strategies

Arnaud Riat
Dionysios Neofytos
Alix T. Coste
Stephan Harbarth
Alain Bizzini
Bruno Grandbastien
Jerome Pugin
Frederic Lamoth

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2018.14622
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;148:w14622
Published: 26.04.2018

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Lamoth F, Lockhart SR, Berkow EL, Calandra T. Changes in the epidemiological landscape of invasive candidiasis. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2018;73(suppl_1):i4–13. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkx444
Lockhart SR, Etienne KA, Vallabhaneni S, Farooqi J, Chowdhary A, Govender NP, et al. Simultaneous Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris on 3 Continents Confirmed by Whole-Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Analyses. Clin Infect Dis. 2017;64(2):134–40. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw691
Satoh K, Makimura K, Hasumi Y, Nishiyama Y, Uchida K, Yamaguchi H. Candida auris sp. nov., a novel ascomycetous yeast isolated from the external ear canal of an inpatient in a Japanese hospital. Microbiol Immunol. 2009;53(1):41–4. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1348-0421.2008.00083.x
Lamoth F, Kontoyiannis DP. The Candida auris Alert: Facts and Perspectives. J Infect Dis. 2018;217(4):516–20. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jix597
Rudramurthy SM, Chakrabarti A, Paul RA, Sood P, Kaur H, Capoor MR, et al. Candida auris candidaemia in Indian ICUs: analysis of risk factors. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2017;72(6):1794–801. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkx034
Ruiz A. Epidemiology and clinical features caused by Candida auris in the setting of a prolonged outbreak [session S18]. In: program and abstracts of the 8th Trends in Medical Mycology (Belgrad, Serbia, Oct 6-9th 2017). 2017.
Schelenz S, Hagen F, Rhodes JL, Abdolrasouli A, Chowdhary A, Hall A, et al. First hospital outbreak of the globally emergingCandida aurisin a European hospital. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2016;5(1):35. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-016-0132-5
Chowdhary A, Sharma C, Meis JF. Candida auris: A rapidly emerging cause of hospital-acquired multidrug-resistant fungal infections globally. PLoS Pathog. 2017;13(5):e1006290. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006290
Mizusawa M, Miller H, Green R, Lee R, Durante M, Perkins R, et al. Can Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris Be Reliably Identified in Clinical Microbiology Laboratories? J Clin Microbiol. 2017;55(2):638–40. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02202-16
Chowdhary A, Anil Kumar V, Sharma C, Prakash A, Agarwal K, Babu R, et al. Multidrug-resistant endemic clonal strain of Candida auris in India. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2014;33(6):919–26. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-013-2027-1
Kordalewska M, Zhao Y, Lockhart SR, Chowdhary A, Berrio I, Perlin DS. Rapid and Accurate Molecular Identification of the Emerging Multidrug-Resistant Pathogen Candida auris. J Clin Microbiol. 2017;55(8):2445–52. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00630-17
Bao JR, Master RN, Azad KN, Schwab DA, Clark RB, Jones RS, et al. Rapid, Rapid, Accurate Identification of Candida auris by Using a Novel Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) Database (Library). J Clin Microbiol. 2018;56(4):e01700-17. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01700-17
Tsay S, Welsh RM, Adams EH, Chow NA, Gade L, Berkow EL, et al.; MSD. Notes from the Field: Ongoing Transmission of Candida auris in Health Care Facilities - United States, June 2016-May 2017. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2017;66(19):514–5. doi:.https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6619a7
Welsh RM, Bentz ML, Shams A, Houston H, Lyons A, Rose LJ, et al. Survival, Persistence, and Isolation of the Emerging Multidrug-Resistant Pathogenic Yeast Candida auris on a Plastic Health Care Surface. J Clin Microbiol. 2017;55(10):2996–3005. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00921-17
Cadnum JL, Shaikh AA, Piedrahita CT, Sankar T, Jencson AL, Larkin EL, et al. Effectiveness of Disinfectants Against Candida auris and Other Candida Species. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017;38(10):1240–3. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2017.162

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Riat A, Neofytos D, Coste AT, Harbarth S, Bizzini A, Grandbastien B, Pugin J, Lamoth F. First case of Candida auris in Switzerland: discussion about preventive strategies. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. 2018 Apr. 26 [cited 2024 Nov. 19];148(1718):w14622. Available from: https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/2470

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[1] Lamoth F, Lockhart SR, Berkow EL, Calandra T. Changes in the epidemiological landscape of invasive candidiasis. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2018;73(suppl_1):i4–13. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkx444

[2] Lockhart SR, Etienne KA, Vallabhaneni S, Farooqi J, Chowdhary A, Govender NP, et al. Simultaneous Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris on 3 Continents Confirmed by Whole-Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Analyses. Clin Infect Dis. 2017;64(2):134–40. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw691

[3] Satoh K, Makimura K, Hasumi Y, Nishiyama Y, Uchida K, Yamaguchi H. Candida auris sp. nov., a novel ascomycetous yeast isolated from the external ear canal of an inpatient in a Japanese hospital. Microbiol Immunol. 2009;53(1):41–4. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1348-0421.2008.00083.x

[4] Lamoth F, Kontoyiannis DP. The Candida auris Alert: Facts and Perspectives. J Infect Dis. 2018;217(4):516–20. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jix597

[5] Rudramurthy SM, Chakrabarti A, Paul RA, Sood P, Kaur H, Capoor MR, et al. Candida auris candidaemia in Indian ICUs: analysis of risk factors. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2017;72(6):1794–801. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkx034

[6] Ruiz A. Epidemiology and clinical features caused by Candida auris in the setting of a prolonged outbreak [session S18]. In: program and abstracts of the 8th Trends in Medical Mycology (Belgrad, Serbia, Oct 6-9th 2017). 2017.

[7] Schelenz S, Hagen F, Rhodes JL, Abdolrasouli A, Chowdhary A, Hall A, et al. First hospital outbreak of the globally emergingCandida aurisin a European hospital. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2016;5(1):35. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-016-0132-5

[8] Chowdhary A, Sharma C, Meis JF. Candida auris: A rapidly emerging cause of hospital-acquired multidrug-resistant fungal infections globally. PLoS Pathog. 2017;13(5):e1006290. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006290

[9] Mizusawa M, Miller H, Green R, Lee R, Durante M, Perkins R, et al. Can Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris Be Reliably Identified in Clinical Microbiology Laboratories? J Clin Microbiol. 2017;55(2):638–40. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02202-16

[10] Chowdhary A, Anil Kumar V, Sharma C, Prakash A, Agarwal K, Babu R, et al. Multidrug-resistant endemic clonal strain of Candida auris in India. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2014;33(6):919–26. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-013-2027-1

[11] Kordalewska M, Zhao Y, Lockhart SR, Chowdhary A, Berrio I, Perlin DS. Rapid and Accurate Molecular Identification of the Emerging Multidrug-Resistant Pathogen Candida auris. J Clin Microbiol. 2017;55(8):2445–52. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00630-17

[12] Bao JR, Master RN, Azad KN, Schwab DA, Clark RB, Jones RS, et al. Rapid, Rapid, Accurate Identification of Candida auris by Using a Novel Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) Database (Library). J Clin Microbiol. 2018;56(4):e01700-17. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01700-17

[13] Tsay S, Welsh RM, Adams EH, Chow NA, Gade L, Berkow EL, et al.; MSD. Notes from the Field: Ongoing Transmission of Candida auris in Health Care Facilities - United States, June 2016-May 2017. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2017;66(19):514–5. doi:.https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6619a7

[14] Welsh RM, Bentz ML, Shams A, Houston H, Lyons A, Rose LJ, et al. Survival, Persistence, and Isolation of the Emerging Multidrug-Resistant Pathogenic Yeast Candida auris on a Plastic Health Care Surface. J Clin Microbiol. 2017;55(10):2996–3005. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00921-17

[15] Cadnum JL, Shaikh AA, Piedrahita CT, Sankar T, Jencson AL, Larkin EL, et al. Effectiveness of Disinfectants Against Candida auris and Other Candida Species. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017;38(10):1240–3. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2017.162