Nasal Iodophor to Reduce <i>Candidozyma auris</i> Nasal Carriage in Nursing Home Residents
<i>Candidozyma auris</i> is an emerging drug-resistant yeast that frequently colonizes the nose. Among 27 nursing home residents, 5 days of twice-daily nasal iodophor (10% povidone iodine) reduced nasal carriage bioburden in 14 (52%), with negative posttreatment cultures in 5 (19%), providing hypothesis-generating evidence for the role of nasal decolonization in <i>C auris</i> prevention.
Authors
- Julie A Shimabukuro
- Raheeb Saavedra
- Gabrielle Gussin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8051-7613)
- Raveena Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4262-3663)
- Susan S. Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6748-3447)
- Ken Kleinman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5600-5834)
- Eric Nguyen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4164-5548)
- Cassiana E. Bittencourt
Institutions
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
- University of California, Irvine Medical Center (US)
- UC Irvine Health (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-10-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaf650
- Primary Topic
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00