Following surgical excision of a pustulent abcess, a 48-year-old obese woman presented with intermittent sutures on her right tibia. On this first day, the patient had a slight fever and the periwound showed signs of infection and inflammation

A 45 year old female crashed through a glass door and had a deep wound on her left ankle, severing the achilles tendon and nerve.

Candida auris is a pathogenic yeast that first was isolated in 2009 from a 70-year-old Japanese woman. The name auris comes from Latin what means ear, referring to the first location where it was isolated from.