| multistate outbreak of fungal infection associated with injection of methylprednisolone acetate solution from a single compounding pharmacy - united states, 2012. | on september 18, 2012, the tennessee department of health was alerted by a clinician regarding a patient with culture-confirmed aspergillus fumigatus meningitis diagnosed 46 days after epidural steroid injection at a tennessee ambulatory surgical center. by september 27, the initial investigation, carried out by the tennessee department of health in collaboration with cdc and the north carolina department of health and human services, had identified an additional eight patients with clinically d ... | 2012 | 23076093 |
| spinal and paraspinal infections associated with contaminated methylprednisolone acetate injections - michigan, 2012-2013. | as of may 6, 2013, michigan had reported 167 (52%) of the 320 paraspinal or spinal infections without meningitis associated with the 2012-2013 fungal meningitis outbreak nationally. although the index patient had a laboratory-confirmed aspergillus fumigatus infection, the fungus most often identified, including in unopened vials of methylprednisolone acetate (mpa), remains exserohilum rostratum, a common black mold found on plants and in soil. exposures have occurred through epidural, paraspinal ... | 2013 | 23677044 |