Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine
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Ba·cil·lus Cal·mette-Gué·rin vaccine
(bə-sĭl′əs kăl-mĕt′gā-răn′)n.
See BCG vaccine.
[After Albert L.C. Calmette (1863-1933) and Camille , Guérin (1872-1961), French bacteriologists.]
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