Overview

• Most detections at the Charité are colonisations without symptoms, with two patients ill and one suspected case under review.
• The hospital enacted stricter hygiene rules, expanded screening to find undetected carriers, and says isolation typically lasts three to five weeks.
• The ECDC reports more than 4,000 European detections from 2013 to 2023, including 1,346 in 2023, and warns that patchy surveillance likely undercounts cases.
• Germany logged 120 cases in 2013–2023 with 77 in 2023, while Lower Saxony recorded two cases in 2024 and none reported so far in 2025.
• C. auris spreads via contaminated surfaces and devices, shows high resistance to azoles such as fluconazole, poses serious risk to immunocompromised patients, and is commonly treated with echinocandins.