Volume 16, Number 7—July 2010
Letter
Mycobacterium conceptionense Infection after Breast Implant Surgery, France
Sandrine Thibeaut, Pierre-Yves Levy, Marie-Laure Pelletier, and Michel Drancourt
Table
Three cases of Mycobacterium conceptionense infection in female patients*
| Patient age, y | Clinical situation | Identification | Treatment |
Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature | Duration, mo | ||||
| 31 | Posttraumatic osteitis | 16S rRNA, soda, hsp65, recA, rpoB† | Antimicrobial drug therapy: AMC | 3 | (4) |
| 43 | Subcutaneous abscess without trauma | partial 1,464-bp 16S rRNA gene‡ | Surgery and antimicrobial drug therapy: COT and CLA; then DOX and CLA; then LIN and CLA | 5 | (10) |
| 58 | Breast implant infection | rpoB§ | Surgery and antimicrobial drug therapy: CIP and AZY; then CIP, AZY, and DOX; then DOX | 18 | This report |
*AMC, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid; COT, cotrimoxazole; CLA, clarithromycin; DOX, doxycycline; LIN, linezolid; CIP, ciprofloxacin, AZY, azythromycin. The outcome for all 3 patients was favorable.
†GenBank accession nos.: 16S rRNA, AY859684; rpoB, AY859695; hsp65, AY859678; sodA, AY859708; recA, AY859690.
‡GenBank accession no. AM884289.1.
§GenBank accession no. AY859695.1.
