Preparedness for Candida auris in Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP) hospitals, 2018

We surveyed Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program hospitals to evaluate infection prevention and microbiology laboratory preparedness for Candida auris . We identified significant gaps: most hospitals were not prepared to screen patients for colonization, and only one-half of laboratories reported identifying all clinically significant Candida isolates to the species level.