medigraphic.com
Colegio de Medicina Interna de México.

2024, Number 8

<< Back Next >>

Med Int Mex 2024; 40 (8)

Fungal meningitis; epidemiological alert

Maldonado MJA, Tinoco ÁMA, Martínez LÁ, Alfaro CJA

Language: Spanish
References: 18
Page: 525-530
PDF size: 333.05 Kb.


ABSTRACT

On May 8, 2023, a statement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Texas Department of State Health Services, and the Cameron County Health Department notified the cases of two hospitalized patients in Texas with compatible symptoms with meningitis, having in common aesthetic procedures and epidural anesthesia in two private hospitals in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. With the above, as of May 13, 2023, the Secretary of Health of the State of Tamaulipas and the General Hospital of Matamoros issued a health alert, providing information about an epidemiological outbreak that conditions fungal meningitis; identifying more than 400 patients, who were both from the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and from the South Texas valley. The purpose of this article is to inform and provide recommendations for the identification, diagnosis, and timely treatment of the epidemiological outbreak of fungal meningitis found in this Mexican city.


REFERENCES

  1. Organización Panamericana de la Salud. Nota Técnica:Meningitis de origen desconocido México. https://www.paho.org/es/documentos/nota-tecnica-meningitis-origendesconocido-mexico

  2. Comisión Federal para la protección contra riesgos sanitariosCOFEPRIS – Comunicado de prensa: Cofepris informaresultados de los análisis entregados al estado de Durangosobre los casos de meningitis. Disponible en: https://bit.ly/3uEyKvD

  3. Secretaría de Salud de México. Comunicado de prensa:Continúa investigación sobre causas de meningitis en Durango:Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez. https://bit.ly/3ODmIMo

  4. Secretaría de Salud de México. Comunicado técnico diariomeningitis – 8 diciembre de 2022. https://bit.ly/3uBHMd5

  5. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Outbreakof Suspected Fungal Meningitis in U.S. Patients whoUnderwent Surgical Procedures under Epidural Anesthesiain Matamoros, Mexico. May 17, 2023. https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2023/han00491.asp

  6. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Outbreakof Suspected Fungal Meningitis in U.S. Patients whoUnderwent Surgical Procedures under Epidural Anesthesiain Matamoros, Mexico. May 17, 2023. https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2023/han00491.asp

  7. Organización Mundial de la Salud. Brote de presunta meningitismicótica asociado a intervenciones quirúrgicas conanestesia raquídea – Estados Unidos de América y México.1 de Junio del 2023. https://www.who.int/es/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2023-DON470

  8. Gobierno del Estado de Durango. Conferencia de prensa:Actualización en temas de salud. https://bit.ly/3VEZBUn

  9. García-Vidal C, Salavert Lletí M. Inmunopatología de lasmicosis invasivas por hongos filamentosos. Rev IberoamMicol 2014; 31 (4): 219-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riam.2014.09.001

  10. Batista BG, Chaves MA, Reginatto P, Saraiva OJ, FuentefriaAM. Human fusariosis: An emerging infection that is difficultto treat. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 2020; 53: e20200013.https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0013-2020

  11. Abramowsky CR, Quinn D, Bradford WD, Conant NF. Systemicinfection by fusarium in a burned child. The emergenceof a saprophytic strain. J Pediatr 1974; 84: 561- 4.

  12. Ahearn DG, Stulting RD. Moulds associated with contaminatedocular and injectable drugs: FDA recalls, epidemiologyconsiderations, drug shortages, and aseptic processing.Med Mycol 2018; 56 (4): 389-394. https://doi.org/10.1093/mmy/myx070

  13. Doghmi N, Meskine A, Benakroute A, Bensghir M, et al.Aseptic meningitis following a bupivacaine spinal anesthesia.Pan Afr Med J 2017; 27. https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.27.192.9327

  14. Organización Panamericana de la Salud. Nota Técnica:Meningitis de origen desconocido México. https://www.paho.org/es/documentos/nota-tecnica-meningitis-origendesconocido-mexico

  15. Pulice C. Número de muertes por brote misterioso demeningitis en México en 35. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/death-toll-mysterious-meningitis-outbreak-mexico-35-2023-02-06/

  16. Schwartz S, Kontoyiannis DP, Harrison T, Ruhnke M.Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of fungal infectionsof the CNS. Lancet Neurol 2018l; 17 (4): 362-72. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30030-9

  17. van Diepeningen AD, Brankovics B, Iltes J, van der Lee TA,Waalwijk C. Diagnosis of Fusarium infections: Approachesto identification by the clinical mycology laboratory. CurrFungal Infect Rep 2015; 9 (3): 135-143. doi: 10.1007/s12281-015-0225-2

  18. Al-Hatmi AMS, Bonifaz A, Ranque S, Sybren de Hoog G,et al. Current antifungal treatment of fusariosis. Int JAntimicrob Agents 2018; 51 (3): 326-332. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2017.06.017




2020     |     www.medigraphic.com