Calmette test

Cal·mette test

(kahl-met'),

conjunctival reaction to tuberculin.

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Wolff-Calmette reaction

An obsolete, imprecise and painful test for tuberculosis, which consisted of instillatilling tuberculin in the conjunctival sac.

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Calmette,

Leon Charles Albert, French bacteriologist, 1863-1933.

Bacille bilié de Calmette-Guérin - an attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis used for immunization against tuberculosis and in cancer chemotherapy. Synonym(s): Bacille Calmette-Guérin; Calmette-Guérin bacillus

Bacille Calmette-Guérin - Synonym(s): Bacille bilié de Calmette-Guérin

bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine - a vaccine for tuberculosis prophylaxis. Synonym(s): BCG vaccine

Calmette test - conjunctival reaction to tuberculin.

Calmette-Guérin bacillus - Synonym(s): Bacille bilié de Calmette-Guérin

Calmette-Guérin vaccine - Synonym(s): bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine

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