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Idiopathic disseminated bacillus Calmette-Guérin infection: a French national retrospective study.

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1996

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Jean‐Laurent Casanova, Stéphane Blanche, JF Émile, Emmanuelle Jouanguy, Salma Lamhamedi, Frédéric Altare, JL Stéphan, Françoise Bernaudin, Pierre Bordigoni, Dominique Turck,
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Abstract

Idiopathic disseminated BCG infection is a rare but severe complication of BCG vaccination. The infection probably results from an as yet unknown genetically determined immunodeficiency condition that affects the killing of intracellular bacteria such as BCG and Salmonella.