Tattooing: Review of an Outbreak in 8 Patients in a French Tattoo Parlor E nvironmental (atypical) mycobacteria may be in- oculated after surgery, acupuncture, mesotherapy, intravenous catheter use, or subcutaneous injections. Inoculation after tattooing has also been reported in a single case. Herein, we describe an outbreak of an undetermined atypical mycobacterial infection after tattooing that occurred in Grenoble, France, during the year 2005.
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Kluger et al. (2008) studied this question.