Gabriel García-Rodríguez, Célida Duque-Molina, Irasema Kondo-Padilla, Christian Arturo Zaragoza-Jiménez, Vladimir Brian González-Cortés, Rocio Flores-Antonio, Tania Villa-Reyes, Adriana Vargas-Rubalcava, Luis Ángel Ruano-Calderon, Juan Carlos Tinoco-Favila, Héctor Carlos Sánchez-Salazar, Rodolfo Rivas-Ruiz, Octavio Castro-Escamilla, Rosa Areli Martínez-Gamboa, Fernanda González-Lara, Irma López-Martínez, Tom M Chiller, Rosana Pelayo, Laura C Bonifaz, Zoe Robledo-Aburto, Jorge Alcocer-Varela
BACKGROUND: Fungal meningitis can be associated with epidural anesthesia procedures. Fusariosis is a rare infection typically affecting immunocompromised patients and rarely causes meningitis. During 2022-2023, public health officials responded to a large outbreak of Fusarium solani meningitis associated with epidural anesthesia in Durango, Mexico. METHODS: The public health response and epidemiological and clinical features of patients affected by this outbreak were described...
February 2024: Open Forum Infectious Diseases