Albert Calmette (1863-1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist who served as an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. Working with veterinarian Camille Guerin from 1908 to 1921, he progressively reduced the virulence of a strain of Mycobacterium bovis through repeated subculture, developing the attenuated Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, first used to vaccinate newborns against tuberculosis in Paris; BCG remains the only licensed tuberculosis vaccine in wide use. Calmette also pioneered immunological treatment of venomous snake bites, developing an early antivenom known as Calmette's serum, and contributed to research on plague serum.
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In Group: Vaccine and Antibiotic Developers, Introduction, sentence 2Quote, In Group: Vaccine and Antibiotic Developers, Introduction, sentence 2
He co-discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium bovis used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis.
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