An official analysis of the September 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak connected to injections of methylprednisolone acetate from a compounding pharmacy has found it caused 61 deaths and 749 incident-related infections, according to a study in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The study examined clinical data from case report forms and tested for the fungi in available specimens.
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