Abstract
Candida auris, first described from an ear infection in Japan, is an important emerging multidrug-resistant pathogenic fungal species. Its environmental niche remained a mystery until its isolation from the wetlands of the Andaman Islands, India, in 2020. We screened a subset of the world's largest sequence repository, the Sequence Read Archive at National Center for Biotechnology Information, using a DNA metabarcoding approach based on either the internal transcribed spacer (ITS)1 or ITS2 region of the official primary fungal DNA barcode, to identify potential environmental sources of C. auris. Our search identified 34 matches with partial C. auris ITS sequences from seven metabarcoding studies, providing wider evidence for the presence of C. auris outside human-maintained facilities.
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