the drug that you mentioned, mactramycin, is a drug against mrsa. it is not a drug against yeast. it is possible that you have several different things going on here if you are concerned about it, i would go back and again, and asrs specifically, is this candida u-r-i-s.- named auris because it was first found in an ear. there are some pages on the cdc specificallyare dedicated to candida auris during the testing is not as perfect as it could be with regard to this, they are asking people to contact them and asking doctors to contact them, so it is perfectly appropriate for your doctors to go to those pages and reach out to the cdc to get more advice on testing. way: maryn, is there any for people to be able to tell on their own whether they have the superbug or not? i have another twitter user who is asking -- does the superbug fungus affect the middle year? ofapparently has some sort ear infection. is this something that can be determined at home? guest: no, there needs to be a health care professional involved, a clinical microbiology lab, the kind of love that they happening h