A Candida auris Outbreak and Its Control in an Intensive Care Setting

被引：367

作者：

Eyre, David W. ^{[1
,2
,3
,4
]}

Sheppard, Anna E. ^{[2
,4
]}

Madder, Hilary ^{[1
]}

Moir, Ian ^{[1
]}

Moroney, Ruth ^{[1
]}

Quan, T. Phuong ^{[2
,4
]}

Griffiths, David ^{[2
]}

George, Sophie ^{[2
]}

Butcher, Lisa ^{[1
]}

Morgan, Marcus ^{[1
]}

Newnham, Robert ^{[1
]}

Sunderland, Mary ^{[1
]}

Clarke, Tiphanie ^{[1
]}

Foster, Dona ^{[2
]}

Hoffman, Peter ^{[5
]}

Borman, Andrew M. ^{[6
]}

Johnson, Elizabeth M. ^{[6
]}

Moore, Ginny ^{[7
]}

Brown, Colin S. ^{[5
]}

Walker, A. Sarah ^{[2
,4
]}

Peto, Tim E. A. ^{[1
,2
,4
]}

Crook, Derrick W. ^{[1
,2
,4
,5
]}

Jeffery, Katie J. M. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Oxford Univ Hosp NHS Fdn Trust, Oxford, England

[2] Univ Oxford, Nuffield Dept Med, Oxford, England

[3] Univ Oxford, Big Data Inst, Oxford, England

[4] Univ Oxford, Natl Inst Hlth Res, Hlth Protect Unit Healthcare Associated Infect &, Oxford, England

[5] Publ Hlth England, Natl Infect Serv, London, England

[6] Publ Hlth England, Natl Mycol Reference Lab, Bristol, Avon, England

[7] Publ Hlth England, Salisbury, Wilts, England

来源：

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE | 2018年 / 379卷 / 14期

关键词：

NOSOCOMIAL FUNGEMIA;

D O I：

10.1056/NEJMoa1714373

中图分类号：

R5 [内科学];

学科分类号：

1002 ; 100201 ;

摘要：

BACKGROUND Candida auris is an emerging and multidrug-resistant pathogen. Here we report the epidemiology of a hospital outbreak of C. auris colonization and infection. METHODS After identification of a cluster of C. auris infections in the neurosciences intensive care unit (ICU) of the Oxford University Hospitals, United Kingdom, we instituted an intensive patient and environmental screening program and package of interventions. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify predictors of C. auris colonization and infection. Isolates from patients and from the environment were analyzed by whole-genome sequencing. RESULTS A total of 70 patients were identified as being colonized or infected with C. auris between February 2, 2015, and August 31, 2017; of these patients, 66 (94%) had been admitted to the neurosciences ICU before diagnosis. Invasive C. auris infections developed in 7 patients. When length of stay in the neurosciences ICU and patient vital signs and laboratory results were controlled for, the predictors of C. auris colonization or infection included the use of reusable skin-surface axillary temperature probes (multivariable odds ratio, 6.80; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.96 to 15.63; P<0.001) and systemic fluconazole exposure (multivariable odds ratio, 10.34; 95% CI, 1.64 to 65.18; P = 0.01). C. auris was rarely detected in the general environment. However, it was detected in isolates from reusable equipment, including multiple axillary skin-surface temperature probes. Despite a bundle of infection-control interventions, the incidence of new cases was reduced only after removal of the temperature probes. All outbreak sequences formed a single genetic cluster within the C. auris South African clade. The sequenced isolates from reusable equipment were genetically related to isolates from the patients. CONCLUSIONS The transmission of C. auris in this hospital outbreak was found to be linked to reusable axillary temperature probes, indicating that this emerging pathogen can persist in the environment and be transmitted in health care settings.

引用

页码：1322 / 1331

页数：10

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