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Table 4. Misidentification of Candida auris by diagnostic biochemical tests.

Candida auris misidentified as	Commercially available identification test
Candida haemulonii	VITEK 2 YST^a (bioMérieux, Marcy-l'Étoile, France)
Candida duobushaemulonii
Other Candida spp.
Rhodotorula glutinis	API 20C (bioMérieux, Hazelwood, MO, USA)
Candida sake	API 20C (bioMérieux, Hazelwood, MO, USA)
Candida intermedia	API ID 32 C (bioMérieux, Marcy-l'Étoile, France)
Candida sake
Saccharomyces kluyveri
Candida haemulonii	BD Phoenix (BD Diagnostic Systems, Sparks, MD, USA) yeast identification system
Candida catenulata
Candida famata	MicroScan (YIP; Baxter-MicroScan, W. Sacramento, CA, USA)
Candida guilliermondii^b
Candida lusitaniae^b
Candida parapsilosis^b
Other Candida spp.

Data reproduced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Fasciana et al., reporting on various misidentifications of C. auris among other species of Candida and/or different organisms.

^aC. auris has also been misidentified as Candida famata and Candida lusitaniae on VITEK 2.

^bCandida guilliermondii, Candida lusitaniae, and Candida parapsilosis typically make pseudohyphae on cornmeal agar; whereas C. auris does not make pseudohyphae or hyphae; however, it is not to be ruled out as some C. auris isolates have formed pseudo/hyphae [17,35].

BD, Becton, Dickinson, and Company.