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ArticleIDCases2021

Papulonecrotic tuberculid caused by Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccination requiring no antitubercular agents.

Kotaro Araki, Itsuki Inamine, Takeo Aoki, Miyuki Magota

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Article in IDCases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kotaro ArakiDepartment of Pediatrics, Okinawa Prefectural Yaeyama Hospital, Okinawa, Japan.
Itsuki InamineDepartment of Pediatrics, Okinawa Prefectural Yaeyama Hospital, Okinawa, Japan.
Takeo AokiDepartment of Dermatology, Okinawa Prefectural Yaeyama Hospital, Okinawa, Japan.
Miyuki MagotaDepartment of Pediatrics, Okinawa Prefectural Yaeyama Hospital, Okinawa, Japan.
Okinawa Prefectural Yaeyama Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper describes a case of papulonecrotic tuberculid after Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination. A 6-month-old boy was seen in our emergency room with a fever and erythematous papular. He received BCG vaccination at the age of 5 months and there were no systemic problems after the vaccination. There were no abnormal physical findings except for skin lesions and fever. Histopathologically, the lesion was associated with pyogenic granulomatous inflammation and fibrosis, with multiple instances of vascularization and infiltration of various inflammatory cells. Acid-fast stain, culture,and polymerase chain reaction for tuberculous bacillus DNA of the papulonecrotic skin lesions were negative. He was diagnosed papulonecrotic tuberculid caused by BCG vaccination. The fever lasted 10 days, and all lesions healed spontaneously in 2 months. Papulonecrotic tuberculid is a vasculitis caused by an allergic reaction to an internal focus of Mycobacterium tuberculosis or its metabolites. The appearance of an unexplained skin rash may cause parental anxiety, nevertheless the disease may require no treatment unless the patient is immunocompromised. It is necessary to improve awareness regarding the disease as a side effect of BCG vaccination.

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BCG vaccinationErythematous papular lesionsPapulonecrotic skin lesionsPapulonecrotic tuberculidTokyo-172 BCG vaccination complications

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PMID33364167
PMCPMC7750551
OpenAlexW3112915432

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