FATAL OUTCOME OF DISSEMINATED MYCOBACTERIUM-AVIUM INFECTION IN CHILDHOOD - A CASE OF PRIMARY INCOMPETENT MONOCYTE MACROPHAGE FUNCTION/

Disseminated BCG infection rarely heals, and disseminated disease caus ed by the Mycobacterium avium complex usually has a poor prognosis wit h a short time to death. The case of a boy who died after 9 years of d iagnosed disseminated M. avium complex infection is described. He show ed no signs of previously known immunodeficiency except an incompetent primary monocyte/macrophage function. This case has been commented on in Acta Paediatrica Scandinavia (1982) as ''the first infant to survi ve a generalized BCG infection''.