{"id":210155,"date":"2025-03-31T05:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/dangerous-fungal-infection-sees-a-dramatic-increase-in-us-hospitals"},"modified":"2025-03-31T05:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T10:05:52","slug":"dangerous-fungal-infection-sees-a-dramatic-increase-in-us-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/dangerous-fungal-infection-sees-a-dramatic-increase-in-us-hospitals","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Fungal Infection Sees a Dramatic Increase in US Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2AkI5NeD4Ec?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cases of the fungal infection <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Candida_auris\"><em>Candida auris<\/em><\/a> are rising rapidly and coming from more sources too, a new US study reveals.<\/p>\n<p><em>C. auris<\/em> was first reported in the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-deadly-drug-resistant-fungus-has-arrived-in-the-us\">in 2016<\/a> and is considered an \u201curgent antimicrobial resistance threat\u201d in hospitals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2023\/p0320-cauris.html\">according<\/a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on a large health system in Miami, Florida, the new research found that reported clinical cases had risen from 5 in 2019 to 115 in 2023 \u2013 a considerable jump of 2,200 percent in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cases of the fungal infection Candida auris are rising rapidly and coming from more sources too, a new US study reveals. C. auris was first reported in the US in 2016 and is considered an \u201curgent antimicrobial resistance threat\u201d in hospitals, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Focusing on a large [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210155","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\/210155","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}