Thinking beyond the Common Candida Species: Need for Species-Level Identification of Candida Due to the Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris.

species are one of the leading causes of nosocomial infections. Because much of the treatment for infections is empirical, some institutions do not identify to species level. With the worldwide emergence of the multidrug-resistant species , identification of to species level has new clinical relevance. Species should be identified for invasive candidiasis isolates, and species-level identification can be considered for selected noninvasive isolates to improve detection of .