Inadvertent Intramuscular Administration of High Dose Bacillus Calmette Guerin Vaccine in a Pre-term Infant

This case report examined the natural course of reaction after accidental intramuscular administration of high dose Bacille Calmette-Guιrin (BCG) vaccine into the anterolateral aspect of thigh of a pre-term infant as a part of routine vaccination instead of intra-dermal injection into the arm. There...

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Autores principales: Banu, Asima, Loganathan, Eswari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24479056
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.109967
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description This case report examined the natural course of reaction after accidental intramuscular administration of high dose Bacille Calmette-Guιrin (BCG) vaccine into the anterolateral aspect of thigh of a pre-term infant as a part of routine vaccination instead of intra-dermal injection into the arm. There is no consensus on the best management of this complication, although in this case healing was prolonged but was spontaneous without anti-tubercular chemotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-38940092014-01-29 Inadvertent Intramuscular Administration of High Dose Bacillus Calmette Guerin Vaccine in a Pre-term Infant Banu, Asima Loganathan, Eswari J Family Med Prim Care Case Report This case report examined the natural course of reaction after accidental intramuscular administration of high dose Bacille Calmette-Guιrin (BCG) vaccine into the anterolateral aspect of thigh of a pre-term infant as a part of routine vaccination instead of intra-dermal injection into the arm. There is no consensus on the best management of this complication, although in this case healing was prolonged but was spontaneous without anti-tubercular chemotherapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3894009/ /pubmed/24479056 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.109967 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Inadvertent Intramuscular Administration of High Dose Bacillus Calmette Guerin Vaccine in a Pre-term Infant
title_full Inadvertent Intramuscular Administration of High Dose Bacillus Calmette Guerin Vaccine in a Pre-term Infant
title_fullStr Inadvertent Intramuscular Administration of High Dose Bacillus Calmette Guerin Vaccine in a Pre-term Infant
title_full_unstemmed Inadvertent Intramuscular Administration of High Dose Bacillus Calmette Guerin Vaccine in a Pre-term Infant
title_short Inadvertent Intramuscular Administration of High Dose Bacillus Calmette Guerin Vaccine in a Pre-term Infant
title_sort inadvertent intramuscular administration of high dose bacillus calmette guerin vaccine in a pre-term infant
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894009/
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