THE fungus Candida Auris is not a danger to public health, but to hospitals and Intensive Care Units, said Nikos Kapravelos, ICU director at Papanikolaou Hospital in Thessaloniki, speaking on SKAI TV and the show “Today”.
He described the fight against the most serious nosocomial infections as “relentless” and with “tragic consequences”, citing as an example the coronavirus pandemic, during which, as he said, 40% to 50% of the victims received the “gratuitous shot” from highly resistant germs.
Mr. Kapravelos stressed that the hospitals have been shielded against resistant germs and that at the units of “Papanikolaou” there is currently no problem.
Candida Auris said he was not unknown, had been identified two years ago and had been identified by the World Health Organization as a fungus that could cause death.
“The interest for him (the fungus) is twofold. It is that it can be difficult to detect and secondly, there are no suitable antifungals to be able to kill it. “And the third and most important thing is that when it enters our units, it can hardly be disinfected and exterminated”, he emphasized characteristically.
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