BCG Infection due to MPT64-Negative Strain: A Diagnostic Challenge.

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Parasmal SureshRaja Biswas

Abstract

MPT64 is a 24-kDa immunogenic protein that is widely used as a diagnostic marker for the differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) from nontuberculous Mycobacterium (NTM). Unlike Mycobacterium bovis, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine strains with RD2 deletion do not secrete MPT64. Culture isolates from infections due to these strains may be falsely identified as nontuberculous Mycobacterium in the absence of clinical correlation. Here, we present one case each of BCG adenitis and osteitis, both of which were considered as MPT64 card-negative Mycobacterium spp. (i.e., NTM) and were later identified as M. bovis BCG Danish 1331 strain. The first case was a 4-month-old female infant admitted with swollen lymph nodes in the left supraclavicular and the left axillary region of 1 month duration. The second case was of a 1-year-and-5-month-old male child who presented with a limp on the left leg and soft tissue swelling of 1 month duration on the anterolateral aspect of the left knee joint. In both cases, BCG vaccine was administered at birth on the left deltoid region and had healed without any complication. Clinical samples in both cases were positive by Xpert tuberculosis/RIF for MTBC, and cultures grew acid-...Continue Reading

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