BCG vaccine
- BCG vaccine
- noun Etymology: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (an attenuated strain of tubercle bacilli), from Albert Calmette died 1933 and Camille Guérin died 1961 French bacteriologists Date: 1927 a vaccine prepared from a living attenuated strain of tubercle bacilli and used to vaccinate human beings against tuberculosis — called also BCG
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BCG (vaccine) — or BCG n. 〚b( acillus) C( almette ) G( uérin), after A. L. C. Calmette (1863 1933) & Camille Guérin (1872 1961), Fr physicians who developed it〛 a vaccine prepared from an attenuated strain of the tubercle bacillus, used for immunization against… … Universalium
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