State health officials have connected a Central Texas compounding pharmacy to a bacterial outbreak that sickened 17 patients in Corpus Christi hospitals earlier this year.

Bacteria found in an unopened bag of sterile drugs at a local hospital was “indistinguishable” from that found in the blood of those sickened, Texas Department of State Health Services spokesman Chris Van Deusen told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times (https://bit.ly/1jj8wko ).