BCG VACCINE


Meaning of BCG VACCINE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌbē-(ˌ)sē-ˈjē- ]

noun

Etymology: B acillus C almette- G uérin (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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