INDIAN PEDIATRICS 955 VOLUME 42SEPTEMBER 17, 2005 gluteal abscess(2). When BCG vaccination is given in the gluteal region, subcutaneous abscess is known to occur(3). Intramuscular injections can very rarely predispose the underlying Koch’s bacilli to get fixed at the site leading onto a subsequent abscess. The distinction between a tuberculous abscess and injection abscesses caused by Mycobacte...

Recent evaluations of the MacConkey agar test for differentiation of rapidly growing mycobacteria have revealed that certain strains of Mycobacterium fortuitum and M. chelonei that were expected to grow on MacConkey agar failed to do so. Investigation of two formulations of MacConkey agar showed that these two species grew better on the medium when the crystal violet dye was omitted. Several po...

Nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) is an infrequent cause of prosthetic knee joint infections. Simultaneous infection with different NTM species in a prosthetic knee joint has not been previously reported. A case of prosthetic knee joint infection caused by Mycobacterium abscessus and M. fortuitum is described in this report. The patient was successfully treated with adequate antibiotics and su...

A study of postantibiotic effects (PAE) in vitro of amikacin and ofloxacin on Mycobacterium fortuitum isolates from sternotomy wounds by use of the dilution method for drug removal showed that both drugs exhibited good bactericidal activities, with the PAE of amikacin lasting from 13.5 to 27.6 h and the PAE of ofloxacin lasting from 1.2 to 5.0 h. These laboratory results concur with our experie...