Exhaustive diagnosis of breast implants with capsular contracture: The microbiology laboratory as a major support.

The most frequent complications of post-mastectomy reconstructions are breast implant (BI) infection and capsular contracture (CC). The diagnosis of BI colonization is based on cultures from the sonicated BI and from the capsule tissue. Therefore, we first aimed to assess the yield of conventional culture and molecular techniques in periprosthetic fluid, in addition to BI and capsular tissue.

Analysis of clonal composition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in primary infections in children.

The assumption that Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections should be considered clonally homogeneous has been weakened in the last few years. Recent studies have shown (i) the isolation of different M. tuberculosis strains from sequential episodes, (ii) mixed infections by two M.