Fungal Disease Following Contaminated Steroid Injections
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Fungal meningitis due to contaminated epidural steroid injections.
In the fall of 2012, as we finalized this issue of , an unprecedented outbreak of fungal meningitis occurred that was caused by contaminated preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate solution from the New England Compounding Center used in epidural steroid injections in thousands of patients. The predominant pathogen was found to be Exserohilum rostratum (a black mold). Aspergillus fumigatus...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Pathology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0002-9440
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2013.06.010