For the fungus Candida Auris who allegedly caused dangerous infections in hospitals, he said on SKAI and on the show “Today” the assistant professor of epidemiology Gikas Majorkinis.
The professor clarified that this fungus is not a recent discovery and that it has existed for many years.
However, he stressed his profile gives an advantage to grow in conditions where many antibiotics are used.
For this reason, as he said, he appears mainly on Intensive Care Units of hospitals, while threatening ICU patients, people with severe immunosuppression but also people with chronic health problems in organs such as the lungs. “The fungus does not cause a problem in the average person, we will not see a healthy person die,” he added.
Mr. Majorkinis also noted that there is a way to detect it with laboratory procedures, easier in recent years, which can be detected with a small percentage of error. “They can disinfect it. But there is a possibility that it will return, there is great enduranceHe said.
He said that there is no hospital in the world that does not have this fungus. “It is everywhere, just in the ICU, it finds a way and it develops. If the right protocols for the fungi have been entered, they will detect and find them “
Regarding Greece, he stressed that it has been detected in Evangelismos and other hospitals in Athens.
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