
Rare cases of health care–associated meningitis and ventriculitis in adults caused by Candida species are associated with recent bacterial meningitis and broad-spectrum antibiotic use.
Maria Heaney, PharmD, is an infectious diseases clinical pharmacist at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey. She completed her doctor of pharmacy degree at the University of the Sciences Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in Pennsylvania. She went on to complete her PGY-1 pharmacy residency at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, followed by her PGY-2 pharmacy residency in infectious diseases at Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Rare cases of health care–associated meningitis and ventriculitis in adults caused by Candida species are associated with recent bacterial meningitis and broad-spectrum antibiotic use.

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