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BCG Vaccine(Topical Term)

Preferred form: BCG Vaccine
Used for/see from:
  • n: Calmette's Vaccine
  • Bacillus Calmette Guerin Vaccine
  • Calmette Guerin Bacillus Vaccine
  • n: Calmette Vaccine
  • n: Calmettes Vaccine
  • n: Vaccine, BCG
  • n: Vaccine, Calmette's

BCG vaccination in prev of tuberc = BCG VACCINE (IM) + TUBERCULOSIS /prev (IM); BCG ther of various diseases = BCG VACCINE /ther use (IM) + dis /drug ther (IM)

An active immunizing agent and a viable avirulent attenuated strain of MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS, which confers immunity to mycobacterial infections. It is used also in immunotherapy of neoplasms due to its stimulation of antibodies and non-specific immunity.

1979 (1974)

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