Active C. Auris Screening Strategy Reduced Healthcare-Associated Transmission, Study Finds

Healio (6/10, Stulpin) reports, “An active screening strategy meant to rapidly identify patients with Candida auris and isolate them to reduce the risk of transmission successfully helped reduced transmission within a health care facility.” In the study, “over a 21-month time frame, 3,508 high risk patients were tested, with 2.7% of these patients testing positive for C. auris.” The results were presented at the APIC 2024 meeting.