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Case Reports
. 2012 Feb;50(2):533-5.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.05888-11. Epub 2011 Nov 23.

Chest wall abscess due to Mycobacterium bovis BCG after intravesical BCG therapy

Hajime Kanamori  1 , Katsuhiko Isogami, Takashi Hatakeyama, Hiroo Saito, Kazuyoshi Shimada, Bine Uchiyama, Noboru Aso, Mitsuo Kaku
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Chest wall abscess due to Mycobacterium bovis BCG after intravesical BCG therapy

Hajime Kanamori et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Feb.

Abstract

We report a case of chest wall abscess caused by Mycobacterium bovis BCG that arose as a complication 1 year after intravesical BCG instillation. We identified M. bovis BCG Tokyo 172 in the abscess by PCR-based typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and analysis of variable number of tandem repeats data.

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Macroscopic (A) and computed tomography (B) findings on the chest wall abscess. The scale is graduated in millimeters.
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Fig 2
Results of PCR-based MTC typing (A) and VNTR typing with the 12-locus JATA primer set (B). T, M. tuberculosis strain isolated from another clinical case; B, BCG Tokyo 172 strain; S, M9 strain.
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