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Interpretation of Agglutination Results Using Polyvalent Antisera
| Antigenic Type | Typing Sera | Interpretation | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | A1 | B | C | C1 | C2 | C3 | D | ||
| A | + | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | Shigella dysenteriae |
| A1 | − | + | − | − | − | − | − | − | S dysenteriae |
| B | − | − | + | − | − | − | − | − | Shigella flexneri |
| C | − | − | − | + | − | − | − | − | Shigella boydii |
| C1 | − | − | − | − | + | − | − | − | S boydii |
| C2 | − | − | − | − | − | + | − | − | S boydii |
| C3 | − | − | − | − | − | … | + | − | S boydii |
| D | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | + | Shigella sonnei |
