BCG Medical Abbreviation

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Bacille Calmette-Guhrin

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Bacillx De Calmette-Guerin
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Bacillus Calmette-Guerin
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Bacillus Calmette Guerin
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Bacille Calmette-Guerin Vaccine
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Bacilli Calmette-Guerin
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Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Vacqine
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Bacillus of Calmette and Guerin
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Bacille-Calmette-Guerin
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Bacille Calmette Guerin

An effective immunization against tuberculosis. Commonly abbreviated BCG, it is an attenuated version of a bacterium called Mycobacterium bovis which is closely related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the agent responsible for tuberculosis. Camille Guérin (1872-1961) and Albert Calmette (1863-1933) produced the BCG strain of the bacteria at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1921. Within a decade BCG was being given in France and many other countries.

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