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. 1941 Nov 30;74(6):511–518. doi: 10.1084/jem.74.6.511

STUDIES ON REACTIONS RELATING TO CARBOHYDRATES AND POLYSACCHARIDES

LXIV. ANTIGENICITY OF DEXTRAN PRODUCED BY LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES

T H Evans 1, W Lincoln Hawkins 1, Harold Hibbert 1
PMCID: PMC2135207  PMID: 19871151

Abstract

Anti-Leuconostoc mesenteroides sera have been produced in rabbits. These antisera gave precipitin reactions with relatively high dilutions of the homologous polysaccharide, dextran, having a maximum nitrogen content of 0.08 per cent. It can therefore be concluded that this dextran is a haptene.

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