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Volume 21, Number 6—June 2015
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Estimated Deaths and Illnesses Averted During Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Associated with Contaminated Steroid Injections, United States, 2012–2013

Rachel SmithComments to Author , Gordana Derado, Matthew Wise, Julie R. Harris, Tom M. Chiller, Martin I. Meltzer, and Benjamin Park
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Figure 3

Sixty-day case-fatality rates (line) and case counts (bars) by week of diagnosis for meningitis case-patients among persons injected from 3 lots of methylprednisolone acetate contaminated with the fungus Exserohilum rostratum, United States, 2012.

Figure 3. Sixty-day case-fatality rates (line) and case counts (bars) by week of diagnosis for meningitis case-patients among persons injected from 3 lots of methylprednisolone acetate contaminated with the fungus Exserohilum rostratum, United States, 2012.

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