The rise of drug-resistant infections: Fungus immune to drugs secretly sweeps the globe | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

The rise of drug-resistant infections: Fungus immune to drugs secretly sweeps the globe | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Updated: April 7, 2019 12:13:35 pm

The rise of drug-resistant infections: Fungus immune to drugs secretly sweeps the globe

Candida auris is so tenacious, in part, because it is impervious to major antifungal medications, making it a new example of one of the world’s most intractable health threats: the rise of drug-resistant infections.

Dr Shawn Lockhart, a fungal disease specialist, holds a microscope slide with inactive Candida auris, in Atlanta. (Melissa Golden/The New York Times)

In May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed that he was infected with a newly discovered germ as deadly as it was mysterious.