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Application of four molecular typing methods for analysis of Mycobacterium fortuitum group strains causing post-mammaplasty infections.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Feb 2006
Sampaio J L M, Chimara E, Ferrazoli L, da Silva Telles M A, Del Guercio V M F, Jericó Z V N, Miyashiro K, Fortaleza C M C B, Padoveze M C, Leão S C
Abstract excerpt
A cluster of cases of post-augmentation mammaplasty surgical site infections occurred between 2002 and 2004 in Campinas, in the southern region of Brazil. Rapidly growing mycobacteria were isolated from samples from 12 patients. Eleven isolates were identified as Mycobacterium fortuitum and one as Mycobacterium porcinum by PCR-restriction digestion of the hsp65 gene. These 12 isolates, plus six additional M....
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