For this reason, it is important that the hospital has an efficient infection control system and encourages infection prevention measures both related to the patient and staff and to hospital visitors. Learn how to prevent nosocomial infections.
Another factor that favors Candida auris infection is the elevated temperature. Due to the increase in temperature due to environmental factors, the fungus has developed mechanisms of resistance to high temperatures, managing to survive and proliferate in the environment and in the human body more easily.
Treatment for Candida auris
The treatment for Candida auris is difficult, since this fungus has demonstrated resistance to the antifungals normally used in the treatment of Candida infections, being, therefore, also called superfungo. Thus, the treatment is defined by the doctor according to the severity of the infection and the patient's immune system, and the use of echinocandins class antifungals or the combination of several high doses antifungals may be indicated.
It is important that Candida auris infection is identified and treated as soon as possible to prevent this fungus from spreading into the bloodstream and giving rise to widespread infection, which is often fatal.
