Disseminated Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Infection: The Harbinger of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease.
| Autor: | Shajil, Chandana, Sathishkumar, Dharshini, Jyothirmayi, Chinta A., Chacko, Anila, Lionel, Arul Premanand, Thomas, Meera, Kulkarni, Uday, Michael, Joy Sarojini |
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ULTRASONIC imaging of the abdomen
ANTIBIOTICS MYCOBACTERIAL disease diagnosis PRIMARY immunodeficiency diseases BIOPSY BLOOD testing BCG vaccines LYMPHOCYTE count IMMUNOGLOBULINS POLYMERASE chain reaction FEVER HEPATOMEGALY CHEST X rays INJECTIONS COUGH BONE marrow transplantation DELAYED diagnosis SEVERE combined immunodeficiency SKIN ulcers GENETIC testing DISEASE complications CHILDREN |
| Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Dermatology; Mar/Apr2024, Vol. 69 Issue 2, p187-188, 2p |
| Abstrakt: | The article presents a case study of a 7-month-old boy diagnosed with disseminated Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infection, a severe complication linked to severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID). It states that the child, exhibiting persistent fever, skin rash, and hepatomegaly, was diagnosed with a mycobacterial infection from the BCG vaccine and SCID via genetic testing, with improvement following antimycobacterial drugs and immunoglobulin therapy. |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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