BCG

British  

abbreviation

1. bacille Calmette-Guérin (antituberculosis vaccine)

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Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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The BCG vaccine resets sugar pathways.

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An old tuberculosis vaccine—bacillus Calmette-Guérin, or BCG—is being studied to prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

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