Background: Disseminated bacilli calmette-Guerin (BCG) infection after inoculation with live vaccine is considered to result from impaired immunity of the child. However, half of the cases are regarded as idiopathic because no well-defined immunodeficiency condition can account for the infection. Case report: An 8-month-old male infant was admitted with an ulcer on his left arm at the site ...

Rhinosporidiosis is a granulomatous disorder caused by Rhinosporidium seeberi, an aquatic parasite. It spreads through contaminated water and soil. It frequently involves the nasal cavity and nasopharynx. Disseminated or systemic lesions are rare. A 56 year old man presented with multiple tumor like lesions all over the body in our cancer institute in April 2012. Fine needle aspiration cyto...


 Disseminated varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection has devastating impacts on patients’ quality of life, with increasing morbidity and mortality. Thus, it is imperative that a diagnosis be made early. This case description illustrates unique dramatic presentation disseminated VZV important clinical implications.

Fusarium species are saprophytic molds which cause disseminated or localized infections in humans. Disseminated Fusarium infection can cause significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. We present a case of disseminated fusariosis caused by Fusarium verticillioides in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and successfully treated using both liposomal amphotericin B a...

molybdenite occurs in five forms in the sar cheshmeh porphyry copper deposit, namely, (1)-veinlets with quartz-molybdenite, (2)-veinlets with quartz-molydenite that were filled with pyrite, (3)-veinlets with quartz-molybdenite-pyrite–chalcopyrite, (4)-molybdenite veinlets with very low quartz and (5)-disseminated molybdenite grains. because of their large size, the veinlet-related molybdenite g...

PURPOSE To describe an unusual case of disseminated sporotrichosis with intraocular involvement. DESIGN Interventional case report. RESULTS An 18-year-old man presented with disseminated ulcerated skin lesions. Fundus examination showed fluffy opacities in the vitreous and a retinal granuloma in the left eye. Biopsy of the skin lesion and lymph node showed the presence of numerous fungus ce...

the calmette-güerin vaccine (bcg) is administered to all the newborns in iran in order to prevent tuberculosis. complications of this vaccine are uncommon. we report disseminated bcg disease in 17 patients less than 10 years old. this is a retrospective study of total of 17 cases who were admitted in children medical center hospital with systemic syndrome compatible with mycobacterium disease w...