For most fungi, the human body is simply too warm. Yet Candida auris, a yeast first identified in a patient’s ear in Japan in 2009, grows readily at body temperature. Within a few years, it had turned up on several continents. What helped this fungus clear a hurdle that keeps so many others from making us sick?
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