From: Prevalence of Candida auris in Canadian acute care hospitals among at-risk patients, 2018
Group | Description | Notes |
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Group 1 (n = 92) | recent hospitalization outside of Canada | time periods defining recent overseas hospitalization (0.5, 1, or 2 years) varied as per each hospital policy |
Group 2 (n = 117) | recent travel to the Indian subcontinent without hospitalization | time periods defining recent travel (1 or 2 years) varied as per each hospital policy |
Group 3 (n = 104) | CPO colonized or infected inpatients or outpatients and consenting participants in a different prospective CPO cohort study | |
Group 4 (n = 282) | units that are associated with intensive antifungal use | patients identified by hospital census on a single day |
Group 5 (n = 0) | hospital contacts of a C. auris index case | screening as per each hospital policy |