SAN ANTONIO — Clinicians at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center learned some valuable insight about environmental containment after they identified two patients with Candida auris.
Both cases occurred in the ICU, and an investigation demonstrated the risk for cross-contamination of a wide range of surfaces, Anoshe Aslam, MPH, CIC, associate director for infection prevention and control at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, told Healio at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Prevention annual meeting.
According to Aslam, the facility’s investigation into the two