Word: bcg
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Substance. A vaccine, labelled "BCG," obtained from special culture of the Koch bacilli, weakened subsequently by the grafting of 230 successive cultures on bovine bile. To be injected or administered through the mouth...
Results. Cows and monkeys inoculated with "BCG" remained uninfected for 18 months, 1) when left for weeks in contact with other animals strongly infected with tuberculosis, 2) when given intravenal application of virulent bacilli capable of killing an ox in two months...
...infants, born of tubercular parents 18 months ago, given three doses of "BCG" at 48-hour intervals beginning within 24 hours of birth, left with their mothers to run the risk of infection, had yet shown the slightest sign of infection...