Candida auris (C. auris) is a yeast that is often multi-drug resistant and it can spread in healthcare settings via person-to-person transmission or contact with contaminated surfaces. C. auris can cause serious, hard to treat infections.

C. auris began spreading in Chicago, Illinois since 2016. Since then, 552 clinical cases, who were ill and had C. auris detected during their clinical care, have been identified as of March 21, 2023. Beginning in 2017, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) increased efforts to identify individuals colonized with C. auris, who were not ill from C. auris and were tested during admission to a healthcare facility or during prevalence surveys. 1,026 individuals have been identified (to date) to be colonized with C. auris primarily from specimens collected from a swab of the axillae/groin.

Please see the attachment for the full March 21, 2023 Data Summary,

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