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Brazil found Super fungus on COVID-19 Patient

Brazil found Super fungus on COVID-19 Patient



 

Brazil found Super fungus on COVID-19 Patient.

Due to its multi-drug resistance, high lethality and high difficulty in clinical diagnosis and identification, Candida auris is also called “super fungus”.


As of December 8, local time, Brazil had newly confirmed 51088 new cases of COVID-19 pneumonia in a single day, a total of 6,674,999 confirmed cases, 842 new deaths, a total of 178,159 deaths, and a total of 5,854,709 cured cases.

 

Brazil found Super fungus on COVID-19 Patient

 

The Brazilian National Health Supervision Agency issued a warning on the 7th local time that in a hospital in the state of Bahia in the northeastern part of the country, researchers suspected the first discovery of ears in a patient admitted to an intensive care unit due to complications of COVID-19 pneumonia. Candida.

 

At present, the test sample is sent by the hospital laboratory to the laboratory of the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine for review and confirmation.

 

Because of its multi-drug resistance, high lethality and high difficulty in clinical diagnosis and identification, Candida auris is also called “super fungus”.

 

The Brazilian National Health Inspection Agency stated that the emergence of “super fungi” poses a serious threat to public health.

 

 


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