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Somatic antigen

somatic antigen

An antigen located in the cell wall of a bacterium in contrast to one in the flagella (flagellar antigen) or in a capsule (capsular antigen).


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The Fiber Disease

... Lines Propagation, Expansion, and Multilineage Differentiation of Human Somatic Stem Cells from Dermal Progenitors and Characterization of differentiated ... diseases. In particular, the invention relates to the manipulation of antigen production by infectious organisms. the present invention comprises ...

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Spirilla

... of the strain. The O number correspond to the presence of a given antigen on the main bacterial wall, it is called the somatic antigen. H is the flagellar antigen carried on the flagell of the bacteria. And K antigen ...

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by canalon
Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:10 pm
 
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