is an emerging multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen that has become a worldwide public health threat due to the limitations of treatment options, difficulty in diagnosis, and its potential for clonal transmission. Four ICU patients from three different healthcare facilities in Southern Nigeria presented features suggestive of severe sepsis and the blood cultures yielded the growth of spp., which was identified using VITEK 2 as . Further confirmation was performed using whole genome sequencing (WGS). From the genomic analysis, two had mutations that conferred resistance to the antifungal azole group and other non-synonymous mutations in hotspot genes, such as ERG2, ERG11, and FKS1. From the phylogenetic analysis, cases 2 and 4 had a confirmed mutation (Y132F) that conferred drug resistance to azoles clustered with clade 1, whilst cases 1 and 3 clustered with clade 4. Three of the patients died, and the fourth was most likely a case of colonization since he received no antifungals and was discharged home. These first cases of reported from Nigeria were most likely introduced from different sources. It is of public health importance as it highlights diagnostic gaps in our setting and the need for active disease surveillance in the region.

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