BCG Infection after Bladder Cancer Treatment—3 Clinical Case Reports

Joana Alves; Angélica Ramos; Teresa Carvalho; Susana Silva; João Tiago Guimarães; António Sarmento

doi:10.4236/aid.2015.54027

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Author(s)

Joana Alves¹, Angélica Ramos^2,3, Teresa Carvalho², Susana Silva¹, João Tiago Guimarães^2,3,4, António Sarmento¹

Affiliation(s)

¹Infectious Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Centro Hospitalar Sao Joao EPE, Porto, Portugal.
²Clinical Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar Sao Joao EPE, Porto, Portugal.
³EPI Unit, Institute of Public Health of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
⁴Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

ABSTRACT

Immunotherapy with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) to treat non-muscle invasive bladder cancer has become an effective and superior alternative to chemotherapy. Intravesical treatment with BCG appears to be relatively safe; however, occasionally BCG infection complicates such treatment. In the present work we describe three patients in whom BCG infection occurred after intravesical BCG therapy. All patients had positive urine culture forMycobacterium tuberculosis complex, using AccuProbe culture identification and then Genotype Mycobacterium MTBC test identified Mycobacterium bovis BCG. The diagnosis is difficult and microbiologic study is usually negative, so high index of suspicion is essential.

KEYWORDS

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, Intravesical BCG Therapy, BCG Infection, Disseminated M. bovis BCG Infection

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Alves, J. , Ramos, A. , Carvalho, T. , Silva, S. , Guimarães, J. and Sarmento, A. (2015) BCG Infection after Bladder Cancer Treatment—3 Clinical Case Reports. Advances in Infectious Diseases, 5, 218-221. doi: 10.4236/aid.2015.54027.

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