Researchers review the features of hospitalized patients with C. auris infection or colonization in the US EIDjournal CDCgov pathogen disease infection health disease fungus fungal
By Bhavana KunkalikarJun 13 2023Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. In a recent study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers explored hospitalizations associated with Candida auris infection.
About the study The PINC-A1 Healthcare Database is an all-payer database that includes healthcare use, pharmacy, and financial data from over 1,000 hospitals in the United States. Approximately 25% of hospitals have provided laboratory data. All hospitalizations with a C. auris positive culture between 2017 and 2022 were identified.
Approximately 63% and 48% of the bloodstream and non-bloodstream C. auris hospitalizations had their first positive specimen collected within two days of admission, respectively. Almost 58% of bloodstream C. auris hospitalizations also tested positive with another specimen type. Axilla and urine were the most frequent positive specimen types in non-bloodstream C. auris hospitalizations.
Almost 76% of hospitalizations required an intensive care unit stay. Out of these cases, 43% involved the use of mechanical ventilation. The median length of hospitalization was 13 days. The study found that the mortality rate in the hospital was 21%.
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