Apr 7, 2025 | News

diagram that shows the bodyu regions where C. auris and other ESKAPE pathogens reside on people in nursing homes

Nursing-home residents’ skin is a source of transmitted harmful and drug-resistant microbes

Originally posted on February 26th, 2025

Check out MCIDT Affiliate Teresa O’Meara’s News and Views article in Nature discussing how drug resistant strains of the fungal pathogen Candida auris can reside on human skin and use this as a transmission pathway in clinical settings

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