By Marie Rosenthal, MS
MADRID—Multiuse thermometers were the culprit in one of the largest outbreaks of Candida auris reported to date, according to U.K. researchers who presented data at the 2018 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
The outbreak occurred in Oxford University Hospitals’ Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit (ICU), in England, where 70 patients were either colonized or infected with C. auris between Feb. 2, 2015, and Aug. 31, 2017 (abstract