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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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