BCG‐Induced cold abscess as a complication of inadvertent vaccine injection: A case series

Abstract

Abstract We report a four‐month‐old girl with a right thigh swelling, an eight‐month‐old girl with a left thigh swelling, and a five‐month‐old boy with a left thigh swelling with the final diagnosis of BCG‐induced cold abscess as a result of erroneous injection of BCG vaccine into the infants’ thigh muscle.

Keywords

• BCG vaccine
• cold abscess
• vaccines adverse effect