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BCG Vaccine Laboratory, Guindy



BCG Vaccine Laboratory, Chennai, is a sub-ordinate office of Directorate General of Health Services of the Government of India.

History

Established on May 1, 1948, the BCG Vaccine Laboratory was founded to produce and supply liquid Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Tuberculosis vaccines (BCG vaccine) and Tuberculins in collaboration with Statens Serum Institute (SSI), of Copenhagen, Denmark, through the World Health Organization.The Institution is presently headed by DR.N.ELANGESWARAN, M.B.B.S., M.D.,

Activities

The laboratory carries out the activities of:

  • Manufacturing and supplying freeze dried BCG vaccine, for control of childhood Tuberculosis Meningitis and for cancer chemotherapy
  • Producing purified protein derivative RT for diagnosis of Tuberculosis
  • Acting as national quality control laboratory for BCG vaccine
 
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "BCG_Vaccine_Laboratory,_Guindy". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
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