Coinfections with COVID-19, Candida auris confirmed in IndiaScientists in New Delhi, India, report infections with worrisome multidrug-resistant Candida auris in 10 of 15 critically ill COVID-19 patients who also had candidemia over a span of several months, according to a report yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.After the authors predicted in June that C auris would be a problem during this pandemic, they analyzed samples from 596 intensive care unit patients, 420 of whom (70.5%) required mechanical ventilation.
They detected Candida in the blood of 15 patients (2.5%), and C auris was the predominant pathogen in 10 of them.Eight of the patients were 66 or older, and seven were men.