Researchers find that apples treated with fungicides could be spreading a drug-resistant pathogen - via healthing_ca .McMasterU & UnivofDelhi healthing health canada research
Researchers swabbed more than 60 apples for C. auris and other yeasts, eight of which were positive, including samples from two common species of apples: Royal Gala and Red Delicious.C. auris was first discovered in Japan in 2009 and has since spread all over the world. It often infects immunocompromised hospital patients. GETTY
The results suggest the apples could be a pathway for the yeast, helping it to spread more widely, says Jianping Xu, a professor in McMaster’s Department of Biology and researcher with
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