COVID-19 creates conditions for emergence of 'superfungus' in Brazil

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) The presence of Candida auris in a hospital in Salvador, Bahia, was confirmed at end-2020 and reported in an article in the Journal of Fungi. The fungus can cause a lethal invasive disease and is ringing alarm bells because of the speed with which it develops drug resistance.