In B.C.G. Vaccine the word ‘C’ stands for : A)Calmette B)Cough C)Chlorine D)Cadmium
Option A) The acronym BCG stands for Bacillus Calmette– Guérin, a vaccine against tuberculosis and for the treatment of some bladder cancers. It is prepared from a strain of the attenuated (virulence-reduced) live bovine tuberculosis bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis. It is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines.
