Quick post here just to alert people to this story about a drug resistant Candida auris fungus variety showing up more and more.
Of relevance to the microbiology of the built environment crowd is the following quote:
The fungus can be passed between people or through the environment from such things as hospital equipment, says Dr. Tom Chiller, chief of the CDC’s Mycotic (fungal) Diseases Branch.
CDC: “We are dealing with an organism we don’t have drugs to treat.”
Source: Deadly ‘superbug’ fungus Candida auris in U.S. hospitals