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. 1944 Oct 1;80(4):299–307. doi: 10.1084/jem.80.4.299

PREPARATION OF THE TYPE-SPECIFIC POLYSACCHARIDE OF THE TYPE I MENINGOCOCCUS AND A STUDY OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS AS AN ANTIGEN IN HUMAN BEINGS

Elvin A Kabat 1, Hilda Kaiser 1, Helen Sikorski 1
PMCID: PMC2135467  PMID: 19871417

Abstract

1. Methods for preparing small amounts of Type I meningococcal polysaccharide which are electrophoretically homogeneous and contain only traces of other immunologically reactive material are given. 2. These polysaccharides are very poor antigens in man but in a small number of instances definite amounts of precipitin and protective antibody were formed. 3. The significance of these findings is discussed.

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