SPECIFICITY AND DISTRIBUTION OF ALPHA ANTIGENS OF "MYCOBACTERIUM-AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE, MYCOBACTERIUM-SCROFULACEUM, AND RELATED SPECIES OF MYCOBACTERIA
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier
- Vol. 132 (1) , 173-174
- https://doi.org/10.1164/arrd.1985.132.1.173
Abstract
Specificity of antigenic determinants in alpha antigens of M. avium, M. intracellulare, M. scrofulaceum, M. gordonae, and M. szulgai was investigated by the agar gel diffusion technique using the respective absorbed antialpha serum on a total of 225 strains classified into 13 spp. of slowly growing mycobacteria. The specific antigenic determinants in alpha antigen of M. scrofulaceum, M. gordonae, and M. szulgai were species specific, whereas those of M. avium and M. intracellulare were M. avium-M. intracellulare complex specific. Alpha antigens were found to be stable. These results suggest that the absorbed serums of antialpha- M. avium-intracellulare, -M. scrofulaceum, -M. gordonae, and -M. szulgai are useful for serologic identification of these species of slowly growing mycobacteria.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Numerical Classification of 280 Strains of Slowly Growing MycobacteriaMicrobiology and Immunology, 1983