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bacillus calmette-guérin vaccine

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Ba·cil·lus Cal·mette-Gué·rin vaccine   (bə-sĭl'əs kāl-mět'gā-rān')   
n.  The BCG vaccine.

[After Albert L.C. Calmette (1863-1933) and Camille Guérin (1872-1961), French bacteriologists.]
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Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine n.
A vaccine containing attenuated human tubercle bacilli that is used for immunization against tuberculosis. Also called BCG vaccine, tuberculosis vaccine.

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