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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/42348| Title: | B. C. G. vaccination |
| Authors: | Weidemann, Andreas |
| Keywords: | Tuberculosis -- Treatment BCG vaccines -- Therapeutic use BCG vaccines -- History |
| Issue Date: | 1950 |
| Publisher: | British Medical Students' Association. Malta Branch |
| Citation: | Weidemann, A. (1950). B. C. G. vaccination. Chest-piece, 1(4), 3-9. |
| Abstract: | Tuberculosis is still one of the greatest scourges of mankind. As physician, present-day medical students will in the future have to take part in the fight against this disease, both in prophylactic work in the homes, and by treating this disease in hospitals. The B.C.G. vaccine was produced for the first time by Professor Calmette and his pupil Guerin in 1921, from a bovine-type of the tubercle 'bacillus, after this had been cultured for thirteen years in a special medium. During these years the bacillus had lost entirely the power to produce tuberculous disease, but without loslng the usual ability of a tubercle bacillus to develop a relative immunity or power of resistance against the tuberculous contagion. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/42348 |
| Appears in Collections: | Chest-piece, volume 1, issue 4 Chest-piece, volume 1, issue 4 |
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