TY - JOUR AU - Pekard-Amenitsch, Shiva AU - Schriebl, Agnes AU - Posawetz, Wilhelm AU - Willinger, Birgit AU - Kölli, Bettina AU - Buzina, Walter T1 - Isolation of Candida auris from Ear of Otherwise Healthy Patient, Austria, 2018 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2018 VL - 24 IS - 8 SP - 1596 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The emerging pathogen Candida auris is isolated mostly from hospitalized patients and often shows multidrug resistance. We report on the isolation of this yeast in Austria from an outpatient’s auditory canal. The isolate showed good susceptibility against antifungals except for echinocandins; the patient was treated successfully with topical administration of nystatin. KW - Candida auris KW - otitis externa KW - emerging yeast KW - Austria KW - yeast KW - fungi DO - 10.3201/eid2408.180495 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/8/18-0495_article ER - End of Reference