Department of Defense Response to a Multistate Outbreak of Fungal Meningitis — United States, October 2012

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Peterson, Amy ; Clark, Leslie ; Oh, Gi-Taik ; Pavlin, Julie ; Russell, Kevin L. ; Chitale, Rohit A.
• Description:
  On October 1, 2012, the Department of Defense (DoD) learned of a multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis in persons who received injections of methylprednisolone acetate (MPA) from a single compounding pharmacy. Ten patients with fungal meningitis after epidural steroid injection (ESI) were initially identified in Tennessee and North Carolina. No military treatment facilities had received MPA from this pharmacy. However, clinics receiving implicated MPA lots were located throughout the United States, and active duty military service members and other DoD health-care beneficiaries could have been exposed through health-care services purchased outside of the DoD health-care system. Therefore, a timely method was needed to determine whether exposure to implicated MPA had occurred among DoD personnel who used purchased care.
• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks Drug Contamination Female Humans Injections, Epidural Male Meningitis, Fungal Methylprednisolone Military Medicine Notes From The Field Population Surveillance

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• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 2013; 62(38):800-801.
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  24067586
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4585540
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  United States Department of Defense.
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; Tennessee ; United States
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• Volume:
  62
• Issue:
  38
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:06d90bf8b2773f32d4afa1c047799360ec3962335de4a4263e0ffd7f2064a61e93599b7f12d582e0615d80e10f1ba760aacfe009235555669dc3735d339cb346
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/54732/cdc_54732_DS1.pdf
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