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Volume 24, Number 10—October 2018
Research

Candida auris in Healthcare Facilities, New York, USA, 2013–2017

Eleanor Adams, Monica Quinn, Sharon Tsay, Eugenie Poirot, Sudha Chaturvedi, Karen Southwick, Jane Greenko, Rafael Fernandez, Alex Kallen, Snigdha Vallabhaneni, Valerie Haley, Brad Hutton, Debra Blog, Emily LutterlohComments to Author , Howard Zucker, and Candida auris Investigation Workgroup1
Author affiliations: New York State Department of Health, New Rochelle, New York, USA (E. Adams, K. Southwick); New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA (M. Quinn, S. Chaturvedi, V. Haley, B. Hutton, D. Blog, E. Lutterloh, H. Zucker); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S. Tsay, E. Poirot, A. Kallen, S. Vallabhaneni); New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, USA (E. Poirot); New York State Department of Health, Central Islip, New York, USA (J. Greenko); New York State Department of Health, New York (R. Fernandez); State University at Albany School of Public Health, Albany, New York, USA (V. Haley, D. Blog, E. Lutterloh)

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Table 3

Isolates received by the New York State public health laboratory, Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY, USA, from clinical laboratories for the purpose of identifying or excluding Candida auris, through April 30, 2017*

Organism, no. isolated Clinical laboratories’ identification system
 Wadsworth Center identification using MALDI-TOF MS, no. isolates‡
API VITEK 2 VITEK MS† Other
Candida haemulonii, 38
36
1§ C. auris, 35
1¶
 C. haemulonii, 1; Candida duobushaemulonii, 1; Candida glabrata,1
No identification, 13
 2
 2
 9
C. auris, 11
C. glabrata, 2
C. auris, 6
6§
 C. auris, 5
C. duobushaemulonii, 1
Candida famata, 5
 1
 3
1#
 C. guilliermondii, 1; C. lusitaniae, 1; Candida parapsilosis, 2; Candida fermentati, 1
Candida glabrata, 1
1
C. glabrata, 1
Candida guilliermondii, 1
1
C. guilliermondii, 1
Candida lusitaniae, 1
1
C. lusitaniae, 1
Candida sphaerica, 1
1
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 1
Cryptococcus laurentii, 1
1
Cryptococcus neoformans, 1
C. neoformans, 1
1
S. cerevisiae, 1
C. famata/C. guilliermondii, 1
1
C. parapsilosis, 1
C. famata/C. parapsilosis, 1
1
C. parapsilosis, 1
C. famata/C. parapsilosis/
Candida tropicalis, 1
1
C. parapsilosis, 1
Candida dubliniensis/C. haemulonii, 1
1
C. glabrata, 1
C. lusitaniae/Candida utiliz, 1
1
C. lusitaniae, 1
Candia sphaerica/Rhodotorula glutinis/ Rhodotorula mucilaginosa/C. laurentii, 1
1
C. parapsilosis, 1
Zygosaccharomyces bailii/C. sake/C. famata/Candida lipolytica, 1
1
C. glabrata, 1
S. cerevisiae, 23
 7
 16
S. cerevisiae, 23
Trichosporon mucoides, 1 1 T. mucoides, 1

*API, bioMérieux, Inc., Durham, NC, USA; MALDI-TOF MS, Bruker Daltonics, Inc., Billerica, MA, USA; VITEK 2, bioMérieux, Durham, NC, USA; VITEK MS, bioMérieux, Solna, Sweden. MALDI-TOF, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight; MS, mass spectrometry.
†No C. auris entry.
‡Research use only library was expanded in-house by adding 10 C. auris isolates comprising clades I–IV (CDC-AR bank, https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/resistance-bank/index.html) and 8 C. auris isolates from New York in 2016 comprising clades I and II.
§MALDI-TOF MS, research use only library with 3 C. auris entries.
¶BD Phoenix Automated Microbiology System (BD Diagnostics, Sparks, MD, USA).
#RapID YEAST PLUS System (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA).

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1Additional members of the workgroup are listed at the end of this article.

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