1,2; Erica Anderson, MPH2; Kaitlin Forsberg, MPH3; Meghan Lyman, MD3; Marie A. de Perio, MD4,5; David Kuhar, MD1; Kendra Edwards6; Maria Rivera, MPH2; Alicia Shugart, MA1; Maroya Walters, PhD1; Nychie Q.
Dotson, PhD2 (View author affiliations)Views equals page views plus PDF downloadsIn July 2020, the Florida Department of Health was alerted to three Candida auris bloodstream infections and one urinary tract infection in four patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who received care in the same dedicated COVID-19 unit of an acute care hospital (hospital A).
C. auris is a multidrug-resistant yeast that can cause invasive infection. Its ability to colonize patients asymptomatically and persist on surfaces has contributed to previous.