Four major clades of Candida auris have been described, and all infections have clustered in these 4 clades. We identified an isolate representative of a potential fifth clade, separated from the other clades by >200,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms, in a patient in Iran who had never traveled outside the country.
Keywords: Candida auris; antimicrobial resistance; clades; clonal; fungal infections; fungi; genotyping; multidrug-resistant infections; typing; whole-genome sequencing.