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J Romhányi

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Fatal BCG vaccination.

A female baby 7 weeks of age developed a fatal tuberculous disease following BCG vaccination. The infant had Swiss type agammaglobulinaemia, associated with oral thrush, pneumonitis, umbilical infection and chronic enteritis not responding to any treatment. Post mortem revealed an aplasia of the thymus, hypoplasia of the lymph system, miliary tuberculous foci in the lymph nodes, liver and spleen.

Agammaglobulinemia↗

Therapeutic results: report of the Hungarian children's leukaemia study group.

In Hungary, the morbidity of leukaemia in children aged 0 to 15 years is 3.6/100,000. The rate of complete remission was 88.5% in ALL and 57.1% in AML. The most important factors limiting survival were infections acquired during induction therapy in 91.3% and during Co irradiation in 66.3% of the patients.

Adolescent↗