[The Calmette-Guérin bacillus (BCG). An agent to consider in pediatric infection].
Complications occurring a long time after BCG vaccination in healthy children have been occasionally referred, despite being rare. Osteitis seems to be the most frequent of those complications; therefore it must be considered in the differential diagnosis of that sort of lesions. The authors report a case of a 15 month old boy, previously healthy, who suffered an enlargement of the right foot for 3 weeks, unresponsive to antibiotics. The lesion revealed to be osteitis due to bacillus Calmette-Guérin, and abated after specific treatment.
Marcelino
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Departamento de Pediatria, Hospital de S. João, Porto.
Vasconcellos
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Almeida
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Pereira
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Rodrigues
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Dias
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D001500:BCG Vaccine / Q000009:adverse effects; D002481:Cellulitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005533:Foot Dermatoses / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis; D010000:Osteitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D014382:Tuberculosis, Cutaneous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology
D001500:BCG Vaccine
Bacilo de Calmette-Guérin (B.C.G.). Um agente a considerar na infecção pediátrica.