Earliest case of Candida auris infection imported in 2007 in Europe from India prior to the 2009 description in Japan

Marie Desnos-Ollivier (1, 2) , Arnaud Fekkar (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) , Stéphane Bretagne (8, 9, 1, 2)

1 Mycologie moléculaire - Molecular Mycology
2 CNRMA - Centre National de Référence Mycoses Invasives et Antifongiques - National Reference Center Invasive Mycoses & Antifungals
3 SU - Sorbonne Université
4 INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
5 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
6 CIMI - Centre d'Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses
7 Service de Parasitologie - Mycologie [CHU Pitié-Salpétrière]
8 UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
9 Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie [CHU Saint Louis, Paris]

Candida auris is an emerging pathogen frequently associated with multidrug resistance and involved in many worldwide outbreaks. We here report the first European imported case in France due to isolate belonging of the South Indian clade I and the importance of prevention measure to avoid fungal spreading.

Keywords: Candida auris; Europe; India; whole genome sequencing; short tandem repeat

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Mycology

Marie Desnos-Ollivier, Arnaud Fekkar, Stéphane Bretagne. Earliest case of Candida auris infection imported in 2007 in Europe from India prior to the 2009 description in Japan. Journal of Medical Mycology = Journal de Mycologie Médicale, 2021, pp.101139. ⟨10.1016/j.mycmed.2021.101139⟩. ⟨pasteur-03208437⟩