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Science 21 November 1958:
Vol. 128. no. 3334, pp. 1282 - 1283
DOI: 10.1126/science.128.3334.1282
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Airborne Immunization against Tuberculosis

M. L. COHN 1, C. L. DAVIS 1, and G. MIDDLEBROOK 1

1 Department of Research and Laboratories, National Jewish Hospital, and Department of Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver

Inhalation of very small numbers of living attenuated (BCG) organisms and their multiplication in guinea pigs results in the development of acquired resistance against subsequent airborne infection with virulent tubercle bacilli. Different strains of BCG have differing capacities to immunize by this means.


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