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Compounding drugs contaminated with fungi: a recipe for disaster

Pages 1-2 | Received 24 Aug 2015, Accepted 21 Oct 2015, Published online: 25 Jan 2019
 

Abstract

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.

Stuart M Levitz is supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants RO1 AI025780 and R21 AI093302.