Candida auris Identification and Rapid Antifungal Susceptibility Testing Against Echinocandins by MALDI-TOF MS

Candida auris was first reported in an ear swab from Japan in 2009; it then promptly spread over five continents and turned into a global nosocomial problem. The main challenges faced by many researchers are the mis-identification by conventional methods in clinical laboratories and failure in treat...

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Main Authors: Mansoureh Vatanshenassan, Teun Boekhout, Jacques F. Meis, Judith Berman, Anuradha Chowdhary, Ronen Ben-Ami, Katrin Sparbier, Markus Kostrzewa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2019.00020/full