Candida auris, the super fungus isolated in a patient. It’s the first case

It is the first isolated case in Tuscany, in Pisa, of Candida auris, defined as the super fungus. First found in 2009 in Japan from a sample from the ear (from the Latin auris) of a woman. However, the first known to date dates back to 1996 and was identified in a collection of Korean samples. “The first European outbreaks occurred in the spring of 2015 in France,” explains the Ministry of Health website. The Higher Institute of Health recommends “tracing the close contacts of a case in order to identify other positive subjects as soon as possible”.