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Preferred term

BCG Vaccine  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Related concepts

Entry terms

  • Bacillus Calmette Guerin Vaccine
  • Calmette Guerin Bacillus Vaccine
  • Calmette's Vaccine
  • Calmettes Vaccine
  • Calmette Vaccine
  • Vaccine, Calmette's

Note

  • 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)

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 1979 (1974)

In other languages

  • calmetterokote

    Finnish

  • Bacillus Calmette-Guerin
  • Bacillus Calmette-Guerin -rokote
  • BCG
  • BCG-medac
  • BCG-rokote
  • BCG-rokotus
  • Calmette
  • kalmetointi
  • Oncotice
  • Tuberkulosvaccin

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D001500

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