bacillus Calmette-Guérin

bacillus Calmette-Guérin
/kal met"gay raonn", -ran"/
a weakened strain of the tubercle bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis, used in the preparation of BCG vaccine.
[named after Albert L. C. Calmette (1863-1933) and Camille Guérin (1872-1961), French bacteriologists]

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