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Structure and genetics of Shigella O antigens.
FEMS microbiology reviews - 1 Jul 2008
Liu Bin, Knirel Yuriy A, Feng Lu, Perepelov Andrei V, Senchenkova Sof'ya N, Wang Quan, Reeves Peter R, Wang Lei
Abstract excerpt
This review covers the O antigens of the 46 serotypes of Shigella, but those of most Shigella flexneri are variants of one basic structure, leaving 34 Shigella distinct O antigens to review, together with their gene clusters. Several of the structures and gene clusters are reported for the first time and this is the first such group for which structures and DNA sequences have been determined for all O antigens....
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