Streptococcus pneumoniae Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody,3C9

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Streptococcus is a genus of gram-positive coccus (plural cocci), or spherical bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. Cell division occurs along a single axis, so as they grow they tend to form pairs or chains that may appear bent or twisted. (it can divide along multiple axes, thereby generating irregular grape-like clusters of cells.). Capsular polysaccharides (PS) are essential virulence determinants and are used for classification of pneumococci into 90 types. This organism also has a common cell wall PS of which phosphorylcholine is the immunologically dominant epitope. When rabbits are immunized with pneumococci one of the most prominent antibody responses is to this phosphorylcholine determinant.

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