They think the hospital is a breeding ground for the infections resistant to every antibiotic except endozine.
However, in cases of an antibiotic resistant infection or necrotic tissue, a lobectomy is recommended.
They believe the chances of a resistant infection are already high enough that it is not worth risking a few days of pain for the child.
Many people with resistant infections have had success with Micatin cream or spray.
But deadly infections resistant to the drug began showing up in people in the United States in the past few years.
It is only used in the treatment of serious infections particularly those resistant to gentamicin.
(Read Jerome Groopman on the new generation of resistant infections.)
Rates of those resistant infections covered by the vaccine fell 87% from 1999 to 2004, Kyaw's team writes.
He said there'd been cases of resistant infection at the Willowbrook.
Such use is cited as a potential factor in the incidence of certain antibiotic resistant bacterial infections in places like Nigeria.