- Calmette test vaccine
- Cal·mette test, vaccine (kahl-metґ) [Albert Lйon Charles Calmette, French bacteriologist, 1863–1933] see BCG vaccine, under vaccine.
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Calmette test vaccine
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Calmette, Albert — ▪ French bacteriologist in full Albert Léon Charles Calmette born July 12, 1863, Nice, France died Oct. 29, 1933, Paris French bacteriologist, pupil of Louis Pasteur, and codeveloper with Camille Guérin (Guérin, Camille) of the… … Universalium
Calmette, Albert (Léon Charles) — born July 12, 1863, Nice, Fr. died Oct. 29, 1933, Paris French bacteriologist. In the 1890s he founded the Pasteur bacteriological institutes in Saigon and later Lille. He discovered in 1908 that tuberculosis bacteria from cattle were weakened… … Universalium
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