A pair of commentaries to appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy highlight a debate within the public health community surrounding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations for treatment of exposed individuals during last year’s fungal meningitis outbreak. Manuscripts of the commentaries were published ahead of print today on the journal’s webpage.
“I will try to offer sufficient documentation to show there are alternative approaches worthy of consideration,” writes David A Stevens of Stanford University Medical School, the author of the first commentary which questions the CDC recommendations.
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