Nature of Pseudomonas pseudomallei antigens common to some species of microorganisms
Gontar', I.P.; Farber, S.M.; Efremenko, V.I.; Zakrevskiĭ, V.I.; Denisov, I.I.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 3: 55-57
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 6203267 Document Number: 230585
An antigen, common for the infective agents of glanders , tularemia, plague, pseudotuberculosis, cholera and brucellosis, has been obtained from the aqueous saline extract of P. pseudomallei by means of affinity chromatography on antibody sorbent. The isolated antigen has proved to be of a protein-polysaccharide-lipid nature, to have insignificant cathode mobility and to constitute a component of O-antigen. It has also been found to be antigenically related to the tissues of melioidosis-sensitive animals and localized in the surface structure of the bacterial cell.