bacillus calmette guerin (bcg) developed by albert calmette and camille guerin in france between 1908 and 1921 contained a live attenuated strain of mycobacterium bovis and was administered worldwide to prevent tuberculosis. bcg vaccination is also administered at birth to all the newborns in iran. disseminated bcg infection after bcg vaccination is rare. here in, we report 2 new cases of disse...

Received November 2009 Accepted February 2010 INTRODUCTION Hemangioma of the urinary bladder is a very rare benign tumor believed to have congenital origin; however, it can present at any age, being relatively more common in adulthood.(1) To the best of our knowledge, few cases of the urinary bladder hemangioma have been documented.(1) We report a case of a vesical arteriovenous hemangioma in a...

Despite the long history of worldwide use of bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, a wide spectrum of adverse reactions has been observed in a small proportion of immunized infants. The most severe complication is disseminated BCGitis, often fatal but extremely rare and considered to be a result of host immunodeficiency. At present, polymerase chain reaction test, CT scan, ultrasound, X-rays ...

We report a 15-month-old boy who developed an ulcer in the left axillary fold following bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccination. Subsequent immunologic and genetic studies led to the diagnosis of chronic granulomatous disease. His mother had "lupus-like" lesions, described in some carriers of this disease, that were thus related to her son's diagnosis. Although in healthy subjects this vaccination...