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It was prepared for the first time at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1906 by Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin. In France the BCG vaccine has been in wide use in humans since 1921. The vaccine proved to be the safest and the most widely used vaccine.
It has an efficacy of between 50 and 80 percent, depending on the natural occurrence of other forms of mycobacteria other than mycobacterium tuberculosis in the environment in which a person lives in.
It is not currently recommended in developed countries as routine childhood vaccination because the incidence of tuberculosis tends to be much lower there.
Having had a previous BCG vaccination will affect a Mantoux test result.
The BCG vaccination should be given intradermally by a nurse skilled in the technique.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BCG | English | Boston Consulting Group | N/A |
BCG | Italian | Vaccino BCG | Medicine |
BCG | Portuguese | Bacilo Calmette-Guérin | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: BCG |
| Specialty definitions using "BCG": Adjuvants, Immunologic ♦ Immunotherapy, Active. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | As a result, BCG is not recommended for general use in the United States. (references) | |
In adults, the effectiveness of BCG has varied widely in large-scale studies. (references) | ||
In infants, BCG prevents the spread of M. tuberculosis within the body, but does not prevent initial infection. (references) | ||
Economic History | China | Only four foreign consulting firms have received a consulting firm license - BCG, Arthur Andersen, China Consulting Association, and the Lei-Da Group of Hong Kong. (references) |
India | Some of the Indian private companies and multinational companies in India involved in health biotechnology activities including vaccines are Piramal, Wockhardt, Ranbaxy, Torrent, Dr. Reddy's Labs, UB, Cadila, and RPG Life Sciences (drugs, agro and nutrition), Glaxo Wellcome, Novartis Aventis, Smithkline Beecham, Hoechst-Roussel, Core Laboratories, Lupin Laboratories, The public sector vaccine firms are the Central Research Institute (in Kasauli), BCG Laboratory (in Chennai), Bengal Immunity (in Kolkata), Haffkine (in Mumbai) and Bharat Immunological and Biological Corporation Limited (in Bulandshar). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BCG" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.01% of the time. "BCG" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 91.01% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.74% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (common) | 2.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "BCG": BCG vaccine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BCG": bcg-matrix. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bcg vaccine | 27 |
bcg vaccination | 13 |
bcg vacuna | 5 |
bcg immunization | 4 |
tice bcg | 3 |
bcg la reaccion reacciones vacuna | 2 |
bcg reacciones vacuna | 2 |
bcg matrice | 2 |
bcg produtos risco | 2 |
bcg ppd | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BCG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | BCG (bacille Calmette-Guérin, BCG vaccine, Calmette-Guérin bacillus). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | bacil van Calmette-Guérin (bacille Calmette-Guérin, BCG vaccine, Calmette-Guérin bacillus), B.C.G. (bacille Calmette-Guérin, BCG vaccine, Calmette-Guérin bacillus). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | bacille Bilié de Calmette et Guérin (BCG vaccine), bacille bilié Calmette-Guérin (BCG vaccine), B.C.G. (BCG vaccine). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | BCG (bacille Calmette-Guérin, BCG vaccine, Calmette-Guérin bacillus). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | βάκιλλος των CALMETTE-GUERIN ή η υπ'αυτού παραγόμενη τοξίνη (bacille Calmette-Guérin, BCG vaccine, Calmette-Guérin bacillus). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | BCG (bacille Calmette-Guérin, BCG vaccine, Calmette-Guérin bacillus), bacillo di Calmette-Guérin (bacille Calmette-Guérin, BCG vaccine, Calmette-Guérin bacillus), vaccino BCG (bacille Calmette-Guérin, BCG vaccine, Calmette-Guérin bacillus). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | bcgay BCG(bacilo de Calmette-Guerin) (bacille Calmette-Guérin, BCG vaccine, Calmette-Guérin bacillus). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-g" | |
+3 letters: beclog, cubage, cubing, cyborg. | |
+4 letters: baching, backing, backlog, becking, beclogs, boscage, bracing, bucking, cabbage, cabbing, cabling, combing, cubages, curbing, cyborgs, hogback, iceberg, scumbag. | |
+5 letters: abducing, backings, backlogs, batching, beaching, becoming, becudgel, belching, benching, biogenic, biologic, birching, birdcage, bitching, blackgum, blacking, blackleg, blockage, blocking, boscages, botching, bouncing, bracings, bricking, brockage, buckling, bunching, buncoing, cabbaged, cabbages, cabining, cabotage, cambogia, climbing, clubbing, cobbling, combings, conglobe, crabbing, cribbage, cribbing, crumbing, curbings, cymbling, gabbroic, gemsbuck, giveback, grayback, hogbacks, icebergs, megabuck, pinchbug, scabbing, scribing, scumbags, wingback. | |
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