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Detection of Antigens in Enzymic Lysates of Cell Wall from Streptococcus mutans Strains

K.W. Knox

Institute of Dental Research, United Dental Hospital, Chalmers St., Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia

L.K. Campbell

Institute of Dental Research, United Dental Hospital, Chalmers St., Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia

D. Bratthall

School of Dentistry, University of Lund, Carl Gustavs Vag 34, 214 21, Malmo, Sweden

Lysis of cell wall preparations from strains representing serotypes a - g of Streptococcus mutans has provided a convenient and efficient means of obtaining the typing antigens in a soluble undegraded form, and has demonstrated that, in each case, the antigen is a cell wall component in the strict sense of a component joined covalently to peptidoglycan. This influences the choice of extraction procedures.

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Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 62, No. 10, 1033-1037 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/00220345830620100401
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