Tags: ‘Leprosy’

Leprosy

Borderline tuberculoid leprosy following BCG vaccination. A case report. “Borderline tuberculoid leprosy was diagnosed clinically and histologically in a four year-old boy about 6 months after intradermal vaccination with BCG. His mother reported that a lesion began to appear above the vaccination site on the arm 2 weeks after the vaccination, and a second lesion […]

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Dermatological

Anetoderma occurring after hepatitis B vaccination. “Anetoderma is an elastolytic disorder of unknown origin. To our knowledge, anetoderma secondary to hepatitis B immunization has been described only once in the literature, in two siblings vaccinated at the same time. We describe, what we believe to be an additional case of such a rare disorder in […]

BCG

The Adverse Events, Signs, and Management of Neonatal Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Vaccine Overdose. “A two-day-old male neonate was inadvertently immunized with 20-times the recommended dose of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine (1.0 ml instead of 0.05 ml).” #Error #BCG #Vaccine #MedScienceResearch https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/27403247/ — Adverse reactions to BCG. “In the post-war period the following BCG vaccines were successively […]