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Post-pandemic outbreak of drug-resistant fungus in Brazil stemming from abuse of medications and full ICUs
Publicado em 30 de novembro de 2022
In Brazil, a group of researchers has reported the largest outbreak to date of COVID-associated candidemia caused by the same drug-resistant strain of Candida parapsilosis, a fungus that invades the bloodstream and can lead to death. The outbreak occurred in 2020-21 in an intensive care unit (ICU) at a tertiary referral hospital in Salvador, Bahia state, during one of the peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an article published in the journal Emerging Microbes and Infections, the researchers [...]