Serodiversity of opsonic antibodies against Enterococcus faecalis--glycans of the cell wall revisited.

In a typing system based on opsonic antibodies against carbohydrate antigens of the cell envelope, 60% of Enterococcus faecalis strains can be assigned to one of four serotypes (CPS-A to CPS-D). The structural basis for enterococcal serotypes, however, is still incompletely understood. Here we demon...

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Main Authors: Christian Theilacker, Zbigniew Kaczyński, Andrea Kropec, Irina Sava, Libin Ye, Anna Bychowska, Otto Holst, Johannes Huebner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21437253/pdf/?tool=EBI