Dikhyaa Mohanty 
A researcher has found traces of a “Superbug” which is a multidrug-resistant organism, on isolated sandy beaches of India and termed as the next deadly pandemic.
As per the official report, scientists have explicit evidence of Candida Auris which is also called C Auris is known as a “superbug” because it can withstand the main anti-fungal treatments. A team led by Dr. Anuradha Chowdhary, at the University of Delhi, studied 48 samples of soil and water collected from eight natural sites around the Andaman Islands which also included sandy beaches, rocky shores, tidal marshes, and mangrove swamps.
The report further reported that the researchers isolated C. Auris from two sites that is a salt marsh wetland where practically no people ever visit and a beach with more human activity. It was found the C. Auris isolates from the beach were all multi-drug resistant and were more closely related to endeavors seen in hospitals associated with the isolates found in the marsh.
The report further added that the researchers recognized that one isolate found in the marsh was not drug-resistant and grew more slowly at high temperatures compared with the other isolates, insinuating that this isolate could be a wilder strain of C. Auris. This isolate might be the one that hadn’t yet accommodated the high body temperatures of humans and other mammals.
But the study still does not prove that C. Auris generally lives on the Andaman Islands, or that it originated there. According to the report by Dr. Donald Sheppard who is a professor of microbiology at McGill University, Canada stated that there is evidence C. Auris which is present in the UK because the fungus had been found in the foot ulcers of people with diabetes in London which has also been reported in India.
News Source – India Today
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