100 years of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin
100 years of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin
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United States: Elsevier Ltd
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English
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Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), an experimental vaccine designed to protect cattle from bovine tuberculosis, was administered for the first time to a newborn baby in Paris in 1921. Over the past century, BCG has saved tens of millions of lives and has been given to more humans than any other vaccine. It remains the sole tuberculo...
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100 years of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_11967564
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_11967564
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1473-3099
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1474-4457
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10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00403-5
