Drug-Resistant Infections

A December review by researchers at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation, the University of Delhi and the NIH warns that the deadly, drug‑resistant fungus Candida auris is rapidly spreading in U.S. hospitals and worldwide, with roughly 7,000 cases identified across dozens of U.S. states in 2025. The paper, published in Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, explains how C. auris’s ability to survive on skin and hospital surfaces, its frequent misdiagnosis, and its resistance to multiple antifungal drugs make it difficult to control, and calls for new broad‑spectrum antifungals, better diagnostics, and immune‑ or vaccine‑based treatments, especially for critically ill and immunocompromised patients.