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Preparedness for Candida auris in Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP) hospitals, 2018

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2020

Felipe Garcia-Jeldes ,
Robyn Mitchell ,
Amrita Bharat ,
Allison McGeer  and
for the CNISP C. auris Interest Group
Felipe Garcia-Jeldes
Affiliation:
CHU de Québec, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
Robyn Mitchell
Affiliation:
Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Amrita Bharat
Affiliation:
National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Allison McGeer*
Affiliation:
Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
Author for correspondence: Allison McGeer, E-mail: allison.mcgeer@sinaihealth.ca
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Abstract

We surveyed Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program hospitals to evaluate infection prevention and microbiology laboratory preparedness for Candida auris. We identified significant gaps: most hospitals were not prepared to screen patients for colonization, and only one-half of laboratories reported identifying all clinically significant Candida isolates to the species level.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , March 2020 , pp. 361 - 364
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© 2020 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: This work was presented in part as poster no. 2166 at IDWeek 2018 on October 6, 2018, in Los Angeles, California.

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Other members of the CNISP C. auris interest group: Ghada Al-Rawahi, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, BC Women’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC; Elizabeth Brodkin, Fraser Health Authority, Vancouver, BC, Marthe Charles and Titus Wong, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC; Jeannette Comeau, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS; Ian Davis, QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS; Johan Delport, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON; Tanis Dingle, Alberta Public Laboratories, Edmonton, AB; Philippe Dufresne, Laboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC; Chelsey Ellis, The Moncton Hospital, Moncton, NB; Joanne Embree, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, MB; Charles Frenette, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC; George Golding and Michael Mulvey, National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, MB; Linda Hoang, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory, Vancouver, BC; Susy Hota, University Health Network, Toronto, ON; Kevin C. Katz, North York General Hospital, Toronto, ON; Pamela Kibsey, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, BC; Julianne V. Kus, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON; Bonita E. Lee, Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, AB; Marie-Astrid Lefebvre, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, QC; Yves Longtin and Maxime-Antoine Tremblay, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC; Kathy Malejczyk, Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region, Regina, SK; Shazia Masud and Dale Purych, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Surrey, BC; Dominik Mertz and Deborah Yamamura, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON; Rajni Pantelidis and David Richardson, William Osler Health System, Brampton, ON; Ilan Schwartz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB; and Stephanie Smith, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB.

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