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Answer: Given the patient’s history of hospitalization during international travel and the presence of a MDR organism, the next best step would be to ask the laboratory to speciate the yeast growing from the sputum and urine cultures. This patient is high risk for Candida auris, a MDR yeast known to cause invasive infections, which is associated with hospitalization abroad.
The patient’s culture yields Candida auris. You institute appropriate infection control measures to prevent its spread. More information on C. auris infections is available in the link.
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