Seroepidemiology of group B streptococcus type II antibody specificity
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Immunodeterminant specificity of human immunity to type III group B streptococcus
The type III polysaccharides of group B Streptococcus in its native state chemically consists of glucose, galactose, glucosamine, and sialic acid. The core of this polysaccharide lacks sialic acid and precipitates with type III antiserum to give a partial identity with the precipitate between the native antigen and this serum. The core determinant is immunochemically similar to the capsular pol...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology and Infection
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0950-2688,1469-4409
DOI: 10.1017/s0950268800054285