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Taylor-Robinson, David (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Md.), Otakar Soběslavský, and Robert M. Chanock. Relationship of Mycoplasma pneumoniae to other human Mycoplasma species studied by gel diffusion. J. Bacteriol. 90:1432–1437. 1965.—Conditions are presented for the production of four lines of precipitate between Mycoplasma pneumoniae antigen and homologous hyperimmune rabbit serum in double diffusion in agar. The specificity of the reaction was shown by the fact that M. pneumoniae antigen did not react with antisera to the other human mycoplasma species, nor did M. pneumoniae antiserum produce lines with antigens prepared from the other human mycoplasmas. In addition, there was no reduction in the number or intensity of precipitation lines after absorption of M. pneumoniae antiserum with heterotypic mycoplasma antigens, or after absorption of heterotypic mycoplasma antisera with M. pneumoniae antigen. These findings indicate that, of the human mycoplasma species so far studied, M. pneumoniae is antigenically the most distinct.
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