Home › Entities › vaccine_type › BCG vaccine

BCG vaccine

vaccine primarily used against tuberculosis
Thing vaccine_type Q798309
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

BCG vaccine is a vaccine type[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of vaccine type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,972 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: Albert Calmette[3], Camille Guérin[4]
  • Subclass of: tuberculosis vaccines[5], heterologous vaccine[6]
  • Commons category: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin[7]
  • Described at URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/health/bcg-vaccine-diabetes-covid.html[8]
  • Vaccine for: tuberculosis[9]
  • Subject has role: immunologic adjuvant[10]
  • Pregnancy category: US pregnancy category C[11]

Why It Matters

BCG vaccine has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 76 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Albert Calmette

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Medical Subject Headings. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). BCG vaccine. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/bcg-vaccine
MLA “BCG vaccine.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 14 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/bcg-vaccine.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_bcg-vaccine_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{BCG vaccine}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/bcg-vaccine}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): BCG vaccine — https://4ort.xyz/entity/bcg-vaccine (retrieved 2026-10-14)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/bcg-vaccine · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17w ago · Isadora Dela Justina Brites Ramos · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subject has role → immunologic adjuvant
    Subclass of → —
    Pregnancy category → US pregnancy category C
    Subclass of → tuberculosis vaccines, heterologous vaccine
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: public health"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.