RECURRENT SOFT-TISSUE INFECTION FOLLOWING ACCIDENTAL INOCULATION WITHBCG VACCINE

Complications after BCG vaccine (bacilli Calmette-Guerin) occur rarely . They can reach from a local acute abscess to chronic ulceration's. T herapeutically concepts of these complications range from conservative to operative treatment. In the following case history recurrent soft tissue infections occurred after accidental inoculation with BCG vacci ne. The time course of these recurrent infections with its therapeutic options is discussed and a treatment strategy is suggested. Currently , radical excision combined with antituberculotic treatment seems to b e the most promising therapy of this specific soft tissue infection.