[A case of pleuritis tuberculosa which was diagnosed as inoculated tuberculosis after 43 years].
In May, 1946, one hundred two children were detected to have inoculated tuberculosis on their arms among the primary school children in Hyogo prefecture who had received anti-typhoid vaccine on the same spot. Of the 102 patients in the past 25 years, 26 (25%) developed secondary tuberculosis. One of these inoculated tuberculosis patients, 53-years-old woman, was admitted for pleuritis tuberculosa in September, 1989. She had not been included in secondary tuberculosis group. The relationship between her past inoculated tuberculosis and the pleurisy has not been proved. However, this pleurisy would have been developed in case it was caused by the past tuberculosis after 43 years.
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Hyogo Chuo-Byoin National Sanatorium, Japan.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D014396:Tuberculosis, Pleural / Q000209:etiology*; D014611:Vaccination / Q000009:adverse effects*