BCG

British  

abbreviation

1. bacille Calmette-Guérin (antituberculosis vaccine)

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Example Sentences

Success would mean cutting reliance on the U.S. “from 75% to somewhere in the 60s,” says Michael McAdoo, a Montreal-based director for global trade and investment at consultant BCG.

From Barron's

He joined BCG in New York after graduation, pitching himself as a no-brainer hire who had won promotions before and wanted to stay in consulting long-term: “I’m not just selling only on potential, I’m selling on performance.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The BCG vaccine given to newborns in many parts of the developing world to prevent tuberculosis also seems to have a systemic immune response that helps prevent infant mortality from other infections, says Topham.

From The Wall Street Journal

This shows that after five years of taking the BCG vaccine six times, cognitively normal middle-aged adults with a form of Type 1 diabetes had significantly lower levels of two types of protein that play a large role in Alzheimer’s disease compared with those who didn’t get the vaccine.

From The Wall Street Journal

The BCG vaccine resets sugar pathways.

From The Wall Street Journal