{"id":162752,"date":"2023-04-24T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T05:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/if-candida-auris-is-drug-resistant-how-do-you-kill-it"},"modified":"2023-04-24T00:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T05:01:40","slug":"if-candida-auris-is-drug-resistant-how-do-you-kill-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/if-candida-auris-is-drug-resistant-how-do-you-kill-it","title":{"rendered":"If Candida auris is drug-resistant, how do you kill it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-candida-auris-is-drug-resistant-how-do-you-kill-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(NEXSTAR) \u2013 A deadly fungus spreading in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/cdc-warns-of-drug-resistant-deadly-fungus-how-is-it-spread\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/cdc-warns-of-drug-resistant-deadly-fungus-how-is-it-spread\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than half of U.S. states<\/a> is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/what-makes-candida-auris-so-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\">so concerning<\/a> in part because of the way it has evolved to be resistant to both antimicrobial cleaning products and anti-fungal drugs, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/health\/rapidly-spreading-fungus-already-in-28-states-presents-urgent-threat-cdc-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently warned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fungus, Candida auris or C. auris, has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/cdc-warns-of-drug-resistant-deadly-fungus-how-is-it-spread\/\" target=\"_blank\">mainly spread in health care settings<\/a>, like hospitals and nursing homes. Counterintuitively, because hospitals are disinfected so frequently, they can be the birthplace of bacteria or fungus that are resistant to cleaning products and to treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NEXSTAR) \u2013 A deadly fungus spreading in more than half of U.S. states is so concerning in part because of the way it has evolved to be resistant to both antimicrobial cleaning products and anti-fungal drugs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently warned. The fungus, Candida auris or C. auris, has mainly spread [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}