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Structural and serological characterisation of an O-specific polysaccharide from Serratia plymuthica
H M Aucken1, D Oxley, S G Wilkinson
1Laboratory of Hospital Infection, Central Public Health Laboratory, London, UK.
FEMS Microbiology Letters
|August 1, 1993
Abstract:
The surface polysaccharides of a strain of Serratia plymuthica were characterised and shown to consist of a linear, acidic galactoglucomannan as well as a major and a minor neutral galactan. Immunoblotting results demonstrated cross-reactions between this strain and others with similar galactans (S. marcescens O16 and O20, Klebsiella O1, and Pasteurella haemolytica T4 and T10).