Physicochemical Properties of Neisseria meningitidis Group X Polysaccharide Antigen
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Physicochemical properties of Neisseria meningitidis group X polysaccharide antigen.
Neisseria meningitidis group X occurs in human carrier populations and is rarely implicated in serious disease. This organism possesses a capsular group antigen which is an acidic polysaccharide. It is composed of the amino sugars, glucosamine, glucosamine-6-phosphate, galactosamine, and the simple hexose, glucose. The group X capsular antigen has an S(20,w) (0) of 3.6, and the acidic nature of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Immunity
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0019-9567,1098-5522
DOI: 10.1128/iai.6.5.773-778.1972