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Genetic Diversity of O-Antigens in Hafnia alvei and the Development of a Suspension Array for Serotype Detection.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Duan Zhifeng, Niedziela Tomasz, Lugowski Czeslaw, Cao Boyang, Wang Tianwei, Xu Lingling, Yang Baopeng, Liu Bin, Wang Lei
Abstract excerpt
Hafnia alvei is a facultative and rod-shaped gram-negative bacterium that belongs to the Enterobacteriaceae family. Although it has been more than 50 years since the genus was identified, very little is known about variations among Hafnia species. Diversity in O-antigens (O-polysaccharide, OPS) is thought to be a major factor in bacterial adaptation to different hosts and situations and variability in the...
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