Evaluating the measures taken to contain a Candida auris outbreak in a tertiary care hospital in South India: an outbreak investigational study

Table 3 Baseline characteristics and outcome of patients in the first wave of outbreak

Patient ID	CA001	CA002	CA003	CA004	CA005	CA006	CA007
Age (in years)	42	52	42	59	30	82	57
Sex	Female	Male	Female	Female	Male	Male	Male
Department	Stroke medicine	Respiratory medicine	Head and neck surgery and oncology	General medicine	Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery	Pulmonary medicine	Endocrinology
Primary diagnosis	Stroke	Pneumonia	Malignancy	Pneumonia	Pneumonia	Pneumonia	Skin and soft tissue infection
Location at the time of Isolation	Ward	ICU	ICU	Ward	Ward	ICU	ICU
Prior Antifungal exposure	yes	no	yes	No (previous admission not known)	yes	Yes	no
Surgery in the last 30 days	no	no	yes	no	no	No	yes
Duration of hospital stay prior to isolation of **C. auris (in days)**	54	2^a	40	86 (multiple admissions)	14	13	6
Duration of ICU stay prior to isolation of **C. auris (in days)**	39	1	8	30 (multiple admissions)	8	0	0
Specimen from which *C. auris* was isolated	1.Urine (Foley’s catheter)	Broncho Alveolar Lavage	1.Tracheal aspirate	Pus	Pus	Urine	Tissue
	2.Blood (Central line)		2.Urine
	3.Urine		2.Urine
Clinical cure	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Mortality	Alive	Alive	Alive	Alive	Alive	Death	Alive

ICU Intensive care unit
^apatient might have acquired the infection from the previous hospital- C. auris was isolated in the patient within 2 days of admission in our hospital

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