Disseminated BCG in HIV infection.
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 63 (10) , 1268-1269
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.63.10.1268
Abstract
A boy, born to a mother with AIDS related complex, was immunised with BCG on the 10th day of life. At the age of 4 months he presented a local enlarged lymph node, fever, hypotonia, and diarrhoea. Mycobacterium bovis, BCG strain, was grown from the lymph node and cerebrospinal fluid; this proved dissemination.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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