While the hit TV show “The Last of Us” depicts a fictional fungus, there is a real fungus causing concern in the healthcare community, and it can be deadly.
Below, Laura Kelley, media relations professional in the CU Anschutz Office of Communications, speaks to Daniel Pastula, MD, MHS, associate professor of neurology and infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health, about the fungus Candida auris and why it poses such a threat to the immunocompromised.