| Literature DB >> 25241575 |
Ramakant Dixit, Kalpana Dixit, Chetan Basavaraj Patil, Kamendra Singh Pawar.
Abstract
Injection site abscesses are not so uncommon and usually bacterial in origin. Very occasionally, these are due to mycobacteria, particularly rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rarely implicated as a cause of injection site abscess as documented in this report following DPT vaccination. Various possible mechanisms for such an unusual event are also briefly explored.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25241575
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Indian J Tuberc ISSN: 0019-5707