Dangerous Fungus Resistant to All Drugs and First Found in Asia Is Identified in the US for the First Time

The CDC has issued a bulletin noting patients infected with drug-resistant Candida auris in two US cities.  First identified in Asia in 2009, this is the first US ‘patient to patient’ spread of a once treatable fungus.  Of significance, among the 110 cases in a nursing home in DC and 22 from two Dallas hospitals was the high mortality rate among patients infected with strains of C. auris that were resistant to all known drugs.  Among the 5 patients infected with these multidrug-resistant fungi, three died.

Trana Discovery stands ready to set forth a program for identifying new antibiotics for these MDR fungi or any other novel threat to the lives of patients around the world.