Fungal Meningitis

Recent News

Aug 27, 2013

News Scan for Aug 27, 2013

Fungal meningitis study
Iowa 'Crypto' cases top 500
Measles cases at Texas church
Aug 23, 2013

News Scan for Aug 23, 2013

Global HCW hand hygiene
West Nile cases rise
H9N2 mutations
Cyclospora total grows
FDA warns about third-party lab
Jul 01, 2013

News Scan for Jul 01, 2013

More fungal infections, deaths
Polio vaccination in Israel
Jun 19, 2013

News Scan for Jun 19, 2013

Foodborne illness in poor kids
HPV vaccine data
Missed fungal infections
New cyclovirus
CDC rubella alerts
Dengue in Laos
Measles in Syria
Jun 11, 2013

News Scan for Jun 11, 2013

MERS-CoV genetic data
Steroid-injection infections
Dengue in Singapore and Thailand
Jun 04, 2013

News Scan for Jun 04, 2013

Hepatitis A outbreak grows
New fungal infections
No DRC Ebola
Syrian outbreak concerns

Resources & Literature

Recent Literature

CDC. Notes from the field: Department of Defense response to a multi-state outbreak of fungal meningitis—United States, October 2012. MMWR 2013 Sep 27;62(38):800-1

Gade L, Scheel CM, Pham CD, et al. Detection of fungal DNA in human body fluids and tissues during a multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections. Eukaryot Cell 2013 May;12(5):677-83

Kerkering TM, Grifasi ML, Baffoe-Bonnie AW, et al. Early clinical observations in prospectively followed patients with fungal meningitis related to contaminated epidural steroid injections. Ann Intern Med 2013 Feb 4:158(3):154-6

Kleinfeld K, Jones P, Riebau D, et al. Vascular complications of fungal meningitis attributed to injections of contaminated methylprednisolone acetate. JAMA Neurol 2013 (published online Jul 22)

Kontoyiannis DP, Perlin DS, Roilides E, et al. What can we learn and what do we need to know amidst the iatrogenic outbreak of Exserohilum rostratum meningitis? Clin Infect Dis 2013 Sep 15;57(6):853-9

Loyse A, Thangaraj H, Easterbrook P, et al. Cryptococcal meningitis: improving access to essential antifungal medicines in resource-poor countries. Lancet Infect Dis 2013 Jul;13(7):629-37

Malani AN, Vandeberg Dm, Singal B, et al. Magnetic resonance imaging screening to identify spinal and paraspinal infections associated with injections of contaminated methylprednisolone acetate. JAMA 2013 Jun 19;309(23):2465-72

Patel D, Desai GM, Frases S, et al. Methamphetamine enhances Cryptococcus neoformans pulmonary infection and dissemination to the brain. mBio 2013 Jul 30;4(4):e00400-13

Smith RM, Tipple M, Chaudry MN, et al. Relapse of fungal meningitis associated with contaminated methylprednisolone. N Engl J Med 2013 Jun 27;368(26):2535-6

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