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Cannabis Use and Fungal Infections in a Commercially Insured Population, United States, 2016

posted 06/06/2020

publication Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 26, No. 6, June 2020

Case reports have identified invasive fungal diseases in persons who use cannabis, and fungal contamination of cannabis has been described. In a large health insurance claims database, persons who used cannabis were 3.5 (95% CI 2.6–4.8) times more likely than persons who did not use cannabis to have a fungal infection in 2016