The era of "super fungi" has really come-the US CDC reports the first evidence of human-to-human transmission of drug-resistant fungi

Since the discovery of Candida auris (C.

In an interview with the New York Times, Cornelius Clancy, an infectious disease physician for the Pittsburgh Health Care System in Pittsburgh, Virginia, said: “If you want to imagine a nightmare for drug-resistant pathogens, this is it

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are three types of antifungal drugs used to treat invasive infections: azoles, polyenes, and echinocandin

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pointed out that pan-drug resistant strains of C.

Megan Lehman, a medical officer and co-author of the U.

Michael Phillips, an epidemiologist at New York University's Langone Health Center, told the New York Times: "We need to do better in surveillance and infection control, especially where we put patients in a group environment

In fact, a report published on the Open Forum Infectious Diseases earlier this month found that among pediatric patients treated in a hospital in Bangladesh, another drug-resistant pathogen-causing The spread of pneumonia bacteria has become widespread

"In the United States, I have seen many patients hospitalized for weeks or months due to chronic diseases, but the fact is that these children are from the community and are infected with severe drug-resistant infections.