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Briefly, two strains were assigned to Clade III in the phylogenetic tree, which was consistent with previous studies; nevertheless, the phylogenetic tree was not completely consistent with the conclusion of clustering according to the geographical location discovered earlier. The clustering results of <jats:italic>C. auris<\/jats:italic> were related to its drug resistance. The resistance genes of <jats:italic>C. auris<\/jats:italic> were not under additional strong selection pressure, and the performance of different models varied greatly for different drugs. For drugs such as azoles and echinocandins, the models performed relatively well. In addition, two machine learning algorithms, based on the balanced test and imbalanced test, were designed and evaluated; for most drugs, the evaluation results on the balanced test set were better than on the imbalanced test set. The mutations strongly be associated with drug resistance of <jats:italic>C. auris<\/jats:italic> were predicted and ranked by Recursive Feature Elimination with Cross-Validation (RFECV) combined with a machine learning classifier. In addition to known drug resistance mutations, some new resistance mutations were predicted, such as Y501H and I466M mutation in the <jats:italic>ERG11<\/jats:italic> gene and R278H mutation in the <jats:italic>ERG10<\/jats:italic> gene, which may be associated with fluconazole (FCZ), micafungin (MCF), and amphotericin B (AmB) resistance, respectively; these mutations were in the \u201chot spot\u201d regions of the ergosterol pathway. 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