bacille Calmette-Guérin
Tuberculosis vaccine BCG.
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| Interferon-[gamma]-receptor deficiency in an infant with fatal bacille Calmette-Guerin infection. Intralesional bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine has been tried for metastatic disease. BCG is shorthand for bacille Calmette-Guerin, the bacterium that bears the names of the two scientists who created the vaccine by weakening a strain of cattle tuberculosis in 1921. |
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