Candidocyma Auris
Hospital mushroom spreads-Germany is particularly affected
For sick people, the mushroom pathogen Candidocyma Auris can be life -threatening. In Germany, it spreads like in hardly any other EU country. A reason to worry?
The disease -oriented mushroom Candidocyma Auris quickly spreads into European hospitals. This emerges from a report by the European Center for Prevention and the Control of Diseases (ECDC). According to this, Germany was in fifth place in the number of reported cases between 2013 and 2023. Most cases were reported in Spain, followed by Greece, Italy and Romania.
Candidocyma Auris – formerly known as Candida Auris – is a yeast mushroom that was first discovered in Japan in 2009. Since then he has spread in several regions of the world, especially in hospitals. Candidocyma Auris is resistant to various medication and can cause severe infections in sick people.
The ability of the mushroom to survive on different surfaces and medical devices and to transfer itself from so -called lubrication infections from person to person makes it particularly difficult to control the spread of the pathogen, the ECDC said in its report. The pathogen does not spread through the air, such as the coronavirus.
Particularly many infections in 2023
The study of the health authority shows a rapid increase in reported cases of infestation with the yeast mushroom within the EU and the European economic area. From 2013 to 2023, more than 4,000 cases were registered in the region – 1346 of which in 2023 alone. Germany reported a total of 120 cases in the period examined, with 77 there was more than half of the year 2023.
In its report, the ECDC writes that these figures are only “the tip of the iceberg”, since there is no systematic recording of the mushroom in many countries. National efforts for early detection, monitoring and quick implementation of measures to contain the further spread of candidocyma Auris could mitigate the effects on hospital patients in Europe, according to the report of the EU authority.
Hospital fungus in Germany still rarely
Oliver Kurzai, head of the Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg, explained in a press briefing of the Science Media Center that was held on Wednesday, and hospital patients in Germany should not worry despite the increasing number of cases. The fungus is a “rarity” in Germany.
“It worries us from an epidemiological point of view, but for the individual individual patient the likelihood of getting in touch is low,” said Kurzai.
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Source: Stern
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