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A major challenge in healthcare settings is screening patients for colonization with Candidozyma auris (formerly Candida auris). To date, screening has involved using composite groin and axilla swabbing. However, retesting these sites has yielded inconsistent results. Other sites, particularly the hands and anterior nares, are more frequently and more heavily colonized. To investigate optimal testing sites and methods, researchers compared bilateral composite swabs of the anterior nares and hands to bilateral combined axilla and groin samples in 19 hospitalized colonized patients over a 12-week period, obtaining samples every 2 weeks and processing them by culture and multiplex real-time PCR.
The main findings were:
Using culture, 45 (88%) sa…