Compounding drugs contaminated with fungi: a recipe for disaster

Stuart M Levitz

doi:10.1038/emi.2012.46

Emerging Microbes and Infections (Jul 2012)

Compounding drugs contaminated with fungi: a recipe for disaster

Stuart M Levitz

Affiliations

Stuart M Levitz: Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/emi.2012.46
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 1 – 2

Abstract

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Emerging Microbes & Infections (2012) 1, e41; doi:10.1038/emi.2012.46 An ongoing outbreak of fungal meningitis in the United States has been traced to injections of contaminated corticosteroids produced by a compounding pharmacy.

Published in Emerging Microbes and Infections

ISSN: 2222-1751 (Online)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases; Science: Microbiology
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