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In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other health organizations reported the simultaneous, independent, multifocal emergence of the invasive and often drug-resistant fungus Candida auris, identified as beginning in 2012. Although one of the first sites to identify C. auris in 2012 was in Venezuela, only a few hundred miles from Colombia, no isolates of C. auris were reported in Colombia between 2012 and 2016.
With the knowledge that automated diagnostic systems often misidentify C. auris as C. haemulonii, a generally noninvasive fungus, the Colombian Instituto Nacional de Salud reexamined 45 of the 75 isolates of C. haemulonii that had been collected between 2015 and 2016 using matrix-assisted laser desorption io…