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#IdBoardReview 30 F (non-breast feeding)from Mexico 🇲🇽 w/ tender, erythematous, warm swelling of her breast. US +multiloculated abscess. She had intermittent episodes in past few months. Diagnosis? #idmedEd #medEd #IDtwitter 
C. #kroppenstedtii 1st in 2002 retrospective case series of granulomatous lobar mastitis in predominantly young Polynesian women, accounted for >40% of isolates. lipophilic lacks cell envelope mycolic acids, explains tissue tropism for lipid-rich mammary glands
