Anaphylaxis to topical bacitracin

' I H:)PiCAL bacitracin preparations are widely used J_ in both medical and nonmedical settings for the prevention of skin infections. Discovered in 1943, bacitracin is an antibiotic polypeptide complex produced by Bacillus subtdis. It was isolated from damaged tissue and street dirt debrided from a compound fracture in a young girl named Tracey; hence the name bacitracin (1), The bacitracin antibiotic complex consists principally of bacitracin A, peptide residues ii antibiotic contai a ring and five c I sevc