Fatal outcome of disseminated Mycobacterium avium infection in childhood. A case of primary incompetent monocyte/macrophage function?
Disseminated BCG infection rarely heals, and disseminated disease caused by the Mycobacterium avium complex usually has a poor prognosis with a short time to death. The case of a boy who died after 9 years of diagnosed disseminated M. avium complex infection is described. He showed no signs of previously known immunodeficiency except an incompetent primary monocyte/macrophage function. This case has been commented on in Acta Paediatrica Scandinavia (1982) as "the first infant to survive a generalized BCG infection".
Heurlin
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Department of Medicine, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dahlqvist
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Elinder
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Hammarström
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Petrini
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B
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D009000:Monocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000276:immunology*