Highlights
- •This brief report describes characteristics of the first 114 individuals colonized with C. auris identified through active surveillance/screening by NYS Department of Health.
- •“Colonized/screened” individuals were old (median age, 74 years), had extensive health care exposures and underlying conditions (e.g., multiple health care facility admissions and requiring mechanical ventilation), and had 30- and 90-day mortality rates of 17.5% and 37.7%, respectively (although may not be attributable).
- •This description adds to the collective understanding of C. auris in the United States.
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Funding/support: This work was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number CK000423-01S2, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services or the New York State Department of Health.
Previous presentation: A preliminary version of the work was presented as an oral abstract to APIC 2019 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Conflicts of interest: None to report
