ABSTRACT
Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast with high mortality. We report the sentinel C. auris case on the United States West Coast in a patient who relocated from India. We identified close phylogenetic relatedness to the South Asia clade and ERG11 Y132F and FKS1 S639Y mutations potentially explaining antifungal resistance.
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors do not have a commercial or other association that might pose a conflict of interest
FUNDING
NCATS TL1 TR002382, NIAID UM1AI104681(Woodworth M).
NHLBI K12HL119997, Nina Ireland Foundation, Marcus Foundation (Langelier C)
NIAID P01AI091575 and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (Crawford ED and DeRisi JL)
PRIOR PRESENTATION: This work has not been previously presented at any meetings.