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Comparative Study
. 1977 Dec;18(3):563-7.
doi: 10.1128/iai.18.3.563-567.1977.

Demonstration of enterobacterial common antigen by bacterial agglutination

Comparative Study

Demonstration of enterobacterial common antigen by bacterial agglutination

A Marx et al. Infect Immun. 1977 Dec.

Abstract

Potent antisera against the enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) agglutinate R bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family that possess unimpaired R-core structures of the Escherichia coli R1 or E. coli R4 core type. In these strains, known to be ECA immunogenic, ECA is most probably linked to the lipopolysaccharide R core. R mutants of other core types (e.g., Salmonella Ra, E. coli R2 or R3) or R mutants with incomplete core structures of the E. coli R1 type, as well as an rfaL mutant deficient in the O-translocase system, agglutinate to a much lesser extent or not at all. All the later mutants are nonimmunogenic; they possess the ECA in a free form, not linked to the R core. None of the S forms tested from many different enterobacterial genera was found to be agglutinable with the ECA antiserum. The dynamics of the ECA agglutinin formation in rabbits parallels the ECA hemagglutinin formation, indicating that the same antibody class might be involved in bacterial agglutination and hemagglutination.

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