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BCG: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (or Bacille Calmette-Guérin

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (or Bacille Calmette-Guérin, BCG) is a vaccine against tuberculosis that is prepared from a strain of the attenuated (weakened) live bovine tuberculosis bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis, that has lost its virulence in humans by being specially cultured in an artificial medium for years. The bacilli have retained enough strong antigenicity to become a somewhat ..

Topics: Acid-fast bacilli • BCG vaccine • Calmette • Infectious causes of cancer • Infectious diseases • Medical specialties • Medicine • Mycobacterium • Mycobacterium bovis • Pathogenic bacteria • Tuberculosis • Vaccine

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Topics: Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation • BCG • BCG vaccine • Calmette • Clinical medicine • Léopold Nègre • Medical specialties • Medicine • Third-Worldism • Tuberculosis • Tuberculosis vaccines