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BCG (vaccine)

noun

a vaccine prepared from an attenuated strain of the tubercle bacillus, used for immunization against tuberculosis

Etymology: b(acillus) C(almette-)G(uérin), after A. L. C. Calmette (1863-1933) & Camille Guérin (1872-1961), Fr physicians who developed it

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